"Deep down, I knew we were going to win," says Valentin Zuber, spokesman for the committee "Moutier - a town of Jura". "I'm so happy. So many people got out to vote, it shows that a majority really want this change."
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Two pro-Bernese voters take the defeat badly.
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A sea of Jura flags submerged the town of Moutier after the results were announced.
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Pascal Tobler, spokesman of the pro-Bernese organization "the boars", was one of the losers. Nevertheless, he said, "for me, the Jura question is now resolved."
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The mayor of Moutier was delighted with the result: "the people have voted for a brighter future, in a canton which embodies its history, shares its cultural identity, and is socially and economically similar."
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Marcelle Forster-Boivin feels strongly Bernese. "To move a regional border by 12 kilometres, in this day and age, seems to me simply incomprehensible," she said.
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Geneviève Aubry, 84, long led the battle against the very creation of the canton of Jura.
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A yes for the future, a moment forever.
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Even among the youngest, who never witnessed the most tense period of the Jura debates, the emotions ran high on Sunday.
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A pro-Jura voter is defiant in victory.
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