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Anyone who wants to become a Liechtenstein citizen must also present their Swiss passport in the future. An initiative for a balanced representation of women and men on political committees was also sent on Sunday.
Liechtenstein citizens can still have multiple passports. Swiss and EEA citizens continue to be denied this naturalization privilege. The picture shows the Vaduz banking center.
For the first time in Liechtenstein’s history, voters had to decide on three proposals on Sunday. All three projects failed. The turnout was 83.5 percent.
Dual citizenship approval for Swiss citizens and EEA citizens for naturalization was rejected. Therefore, Swiss and EEA citizens will have to renounce their previous citizenship in the future if they wish to obtain a Liechtenstein passport. The proposal was a compromise between today’s restrictive regulation and the general admission of dual citizenship for all immigrants. By rejecting the proposal, voters rejected the privilege provided for Swiss citizens and EEA nationals.
Liechtenstein citizens can still have multiple passports
The discrepancy remains that Liechtenstein requires renouncement of previous citizenship when naturalizing foreigners, but allows its own citizens two or more foreign passports. There are currently around 3,700 Swiss citizens living in Liechtenstein who are likely to renounce Liechtenstein citizenship in the future if they have to surrender their Swiss passport.
The “half half” initiative, which wanted to establish a “balanced representation of women and men in political bodies” in the constitution, also had no chance with the electorate. With 78.8 percent, the initiative was clearly rejected. The high level of rejection was likely due to the assumption that this constitutional amendment was intended to introduce a gender quota out the back door. Although the initiative did not ask for a specific quota for women, it did call for the promotion of a balanced representation of women and men in political bodies, from parliament to local councils and commissions.
The initiators had claimed that the proposed constitutional amendment was simply a goal to correct the imbalance between men and women in political bodies. Parliament argued against him that there was no need for a constitutional amendment, because legal equality was already enshrined in the constitution.
The railway line cannot be extended
Voters also rejected the loan of 71.3 million Swiss francs for the extension of the railway line, which runs through Liechtenstein as a connection between Switzerland and Austria. This means that the government’s plan to introduce an S-Bahn every half hour in this section cannot be implemented.
Partial expansion to dual lanes would be necessary so that the S-Bahn, international trains and freight trains could easily cross. With the S-Bahn, a new transport service was to be created for the around 20,000 travelers arriving in Liechtenstein from Switzerland and Austria every day.
