Corporate responsibility initiative: the most expensive electoral battle in history



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Never in Switzerland has so much money been spent for and against the corporate bill. This is demonstrated by research in the environment of supporters and opponents. Unbelievable: proponents are ahead.

Seeing for months across the country: advertising banners of the corporate responsibility initiative.

Seeing for months across the country: advertising banners of the corporate responsibility initiative.

Photo: Dominique Meienberg

Supporters and opponents have more than 18 million Swiss francs Voting battle to the Corporate responsibility initiative roughly spent. This is demonstrated by the investigation of this newspaper. The financial commitment of both parties is more than double that of the 2013 scam initiative, the previous record holder.

And something else is different this time: it is not the opponents of the business association field who use the most resources, but the supporters of the initiative. He started the referendum campaign much earlier and carried it out much more widely than his opponents. For example, you have reserved at least ten letters in Switzerland. According to independent experts, sending it to the mailboxes costs 800,000 francs each.

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