Re: Swiss elections and referenda - New Federal Councilor(s) election 7 December

[beesley]

Anyone able to summarise the general sitch rn? I have an interest in Switzerland so I know who the parties are etc, I have just paid no attention to the election.

[beesley]

Results from all 3 referendums today:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/vote-results--march-7--2021/46380436

# face veil ban will be approved (I wonder how many Swiss voted for it because they cannot stand wearing masks any longer, not because of Muslims ...)

# electronic ID will be soundly rejected (out of big data privacy concerns)

# free-trade agreement with Indonesia will be slightly approved (there are concerns about palm oil imports and the resulting destruction of biosphere in Indonesia)

Thanks for sharing. What a useful website!

[beesley]

The depressing thing for me is that it probably would have actually failed had it not been for the toxic French debate on "Islam" seeping over the border. Sometimes I wonder if the MCG didn't have the right sort of attitude towards les frouzes 😏

Do the MCG even have any influence these days? I thought they were toast having lost all their seats nationally.

[beesley]

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/vote-results--june-13-2021-switzerland-co2-pesticides/46631396

Results are in - a Swiss voter can elaborate further, but the three environmental referendums (a popular initiative on clean drinking water and healthy food, a popular initiative on banning pesticides and a vote on the CO2 act) were all rejected, while the votes on the COVID-19 Act and the Counter-Terrorism Provisions were carried. The CO2 act vote was the closest.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Basel-Stadt only voted with the rest of the country on the COVID-19 Act, but was on the losing side on the other four.