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The battle was long and hard: opponents of corporate responsibility have the best ending. What does this mean for the counterproposal to the initiative? What’s in there anyway? And the issue is already resolved?
Mother and father of the counterproposal: Federal Councilor Karin Keller-Sutter (FDP) and State Councilor Beat Rieder (CVP).
Photo: Keystone
Where was the vote decided?
The map with the voting results shows it clearly: the No in rural areas of German-speaking Switzerland tipped the balance. Here opponents of the corporate responsibility initiative have invested heavily in the voting campaign. The initiators, on the other hand, have triumphed in French-speaking Switzerland, Ticino and also in the big cities of German-speaking Switzerland. A popular initiative needs a majority and a popular majority to be accepted. The first was clearly lost, the second just reached. There were only two variants of people’s yes and no of positions in an initiative.
