Over 65 percent of Croatians on Sunday (1 December) voted in favour of a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a "union between a man and a woman."
The result came after a high-profile campaign by the Roman Catholic church to prevent the legalisation of gay marriage.
The legally binding referendum asked the question: "Do you agree that marriage is the union between a man and a woman?"
It was the first citizen-initiated referendum since Croatia's independence from the...
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