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Concern as election funding remains under wraps

This content was published on Jun 17, 2015 The campaign for the Swiss federal elections on October 18 will be the most expensive in history, but there is a lack of funding transparency.

Democracy

Foreigner’s rights: Bern’s gesture of limited impact

This content was published on Jun 16, 2015 The nearly 60% approval rate for increased political participation of foreigners in Bern’s city parliament in Sunday’s vote made many leftwing proponents happy. Cristina Anliker-Mansour, who had launched the idea, told the media she was “overjoyed”. and Bern’s mayor, Alexander Tschäppät, joined in with his political appreciation. He hopes the result from the local vote…

Democracy

Closeness of TV/radio vote surprises media

This content was published on Jun 15, 2015 Just 50.08% in favour. Swiss papers didn't expect Sunday’s vote on public radio and television funding reforms to be so close.

Democracy

Wafer-thin majority votes for public radio/TV funding reform

This content was published on Jun 14, 2015 Voters have narrowly approved a controversial change to Switzerland’s public radio and television funding system.

Democracy

A voice for foreigners in Bern city politics

This content was published on Jun 14, 2015 The “Regulation over the Political Participation of Foreigners” is a means of integrating immigrants in Swiss life, says local parliamentarian Cristina Anliker-Mansour, who launched the idea on behalf of the Green Coalition – a local offshoot of the leftwing Green Party. “We started about three years ago, and we really were sure that this step…

Democracy

Inheritance tax initiative roundly defeated

This content was published on Jun 14, 2015 On Sunday, 71% of voters and all 26 Swiss cantons rejected the proposal. As a result, with its initiative to “tax millionaires’ legacies to fund old age pensions”, the political left has continued its losing streak at the ballot box. In the past two years voters have rejected pay caps within companies, the introduction of…

Democracy

Pre-implantation diagnosis to be allowed

This content was published on Jun 14, 2015 Almost 62% of Swiss voters have said yes to genetic screening of embryos before implantation in a woman’s uterus.

Democracy

Cabinet rejects international treaty ranking

This content was published on Jun 12, 2015 International treaties should not be ranked according to their ‘democratic legitimacy’, the Swiss cabinet has stated in a new report. The issue of whether international law should take precedence over Swiss law has been a hot topic in Switzerland in recent years.

Opinion

Democracy

Parliament, polarisation, political class and the public vote

This content was published on Jun 9, 2015 The size of the population, the complexity of social control mechanisms and the need for various, sometimes very opposing, opinions to find permanent representatives makes the democratic formation of will and decision-making based on the model of the people’s assembly or the Athenian polis assembly an impossibility. “Popular sovereignty”, as the result of the direct…

Democracy

Can – and should – immigrants participate in Swiss politics?

This content was published on Jun 4, 2015 Standing at the podium in Bern’s town hall, the seat of the local parliament, Cristina Anliker-Mansour looks small. Her voice is quiet. But the woman who moved to the Swiss capital from Peru at the age of 21 has a big goal: allowing non-Swiss a say in the government of the city of Bern. “They…

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