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It’s a colorful group that has come together: chimney sweeps, car importers, oil companies. Everyone rejects the new CO2-Act and have held a referendum against him. A total of eleven associations have created a committee. They also receive support from the trade association as well as the SVP.
The referendum period will expire on January 14, 2021. But it is already clear: the referendum will be presented on January 12, the date is reserved at the Federal Chancellery at 11 am
More than 50,000 signatures
Several sources confirm to BLICK that there are sufficient signatures. According to one of the people involved, there are “more than 50,000 signatures.” In other places it is said that there are already more than 70,000. And another says with laughter: “We enter the festive season calmly.”
Ueli Bamert, Swissoil’s Chief of Policy, officially just says this: “You can assume there will be enough signatures.” But it does not communicate intermediate results. But: “The signatures are abundant, the subject burns under the nails of the people.”
At the time of Corona it was particularly difficult to collect signatures because there were hardly any booth stocks on the street. So there was a lot to do by mail. The recipe for success: each participating association was assigned a quota of signatures that it had to comply with. The conclusion is that more than 100,000 signatures would have been collected. One insider says that it is very possible that he will get such a high number of signatures.
There is also an agreement with the Federal Chancellery: All the signatures collected until December 23 will be certified by the committee. The rest are sent without authentication. Such an agreement is possible due to the difficult circumstances in the times of Corona and is explicitly provided for in the Covid-19 law.
Opponents of the law point in particular to the rise in oil and gasoline prices. «The new CO2– The law increases the price of gasoline and diesel by 12 cents a liter, ”the committee warns.
Climate strikers also collect signatures
In addition to the economic committee, a committee made up of French climate strikers collects signatures for the referendum. But they will hardly be able to do it themselves, because the field of the green left is practically united behind the new law.
