Switzerland, sovereigns defeated: “no” wins in anti-immigration referendum. But not in Ticino

Passed by one most of the 26 cantons and semi-cantons, the initiative of the sovereign right “For moderate immigration” that called for the end of the free movement of people between Switzerland me EU. A result already anticipated by the institute’s projections gfs-Bern, according to which about the 63% of voters rejected the popular initiative promoted by the sovereign right-wing party Democratic Union of the Center. To be accepted the initiatives popular must be approved by the double majority of the people and the gods Cantons. But unlike the result that is looming nationally, according to Swiss media, voters in the canton Ticino they approved the initiative with 53.1% of the votes in favor and 46.9 against.

In 1999 Bern me Brussels signed seven bilateral agreements, later confirmed by referendum in Switzerland. The free movement agreement contains the so-called “guillotine clause”, according to which the cancellation of each agreement implies the cancellation of all the others. The victory of the YIt would therefore also have an impact on various agreements related to air and land transport, research, agriculture, technical barriers to trade and public procurement.

A country with just over 8.6 million inhabitants, the Switzerland has more than two million inhabitants foreign. the Italians there are more than 640 thousand, more than half of which with the dual citizenship, not counting me border workers who cross the border every day to go to the job. Every day they do it approx. 76 thousand compatriots And it is significant that the Swiss government has never blocked its entry, even in the darkest days of the epidemic of coronavirus in Lombardy. Without me medici he nurses coming from Italy, Ticino’s health system would have found itself in serious difficulties. Today the voters, in addition to pronouncing on their “Brexit”, also approved a paternity leave two weeks and more failed deductions tax for children, as long as they remain on the scale i referendum to allow the wolf hunt and prohibit the purchase of new planes combat.