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Switzerland rejects both the ban on financing war material producers and the initiative of responsible companies. Although the latter achieved a majority among the people, it failed because of the number of farms. You can find an overview of all the results here.
This is the end of a tight election campaign. Yet BLICK readers continue to argue: Above all, there is more to talk about failing at the booth.
“Most of the population is more determined”
“It must finally be the end of this rule, according to which not reaching the number of seats can sink an initiative”, writes about BLICK reader Hanspeter Niederer. In his view, this undermines democracy, requiring that “the rich and the yesterday of the small cantons be deprived of their absurdly disproportionate influence.”
Jürg Friedli, who is reminded of the American system, views it similarly: “The argument that without cantons the smaller cantons would have less to say is true,” he writes, “but I think more people are more decisive and fairer “.
“Where we go?”
For opponents of the corporate responsibility initiative, the booth saved the day the most. “That’s the way it has to be,” says BLICK reader Hansjörg Kappeler. “We cannot take responsibility if, somewhere in the world, people do not work according to our law. Where we go? “
Jürgen Gerber is also happy with the “green-left slap”: “With the initiative we would have thrown companies at foreign lawyers to be eaten,” he writes. And BLICK reader Graziella Gabriel sees no as a sign of independence: “Switzerland doesn’t have to get into more trouble than it already has with the EU.”
“For money we check corpses”
Defenders, on the other hand, see today’s loss as a missed opportunity. “Swiss companies can continue to trample human rights abroad and contaminate the environment,” writes Martin Bachmann. He thinks it is a shame that many voters do not want to grant people from other countries the rights that they enjoy as Swiss.
Vincenzo Rallo believes that the business representatives lulled the voters. Proponents of the war settlement initiative argue similarly. “Typically Swiss: money doesn’t suck; you walk on corpses for that,” writes BLICK reader Daniel Stufer.
“Guns create refugees”
Frederick Bauer finds it particularly absurd that many of those who voted against the Trade War Initiative complain about immigration. “Arms create refugees,” he believes, “so all those who opposed the initiative should accept refugees from now on.”
The other camp, however, doubts that Switzerland has so much influence in world affairs. “Open a map of the world and look for Switzerland,” responds BLICK reader Egon Milder to a proponent of the initiative. “Does this little place want to decide how things should go in the big world?” For the moment, in the midst of the crown crisis, Switzerland should focus on itself anyway, says Fritz Jenni: “We currently have other concerns and we have to solve bigger problems.”
