"You don't touch the sacred rights of the people!: Initiative, Referendum, Pogrom". Cartoon after the anti-minaret initiative in 2009.
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"I like. I don't like. I like, I don't like" [candidates for Swiss naturalisation]. In some Swiss communes the local assembly determines who has the right to a Swiss passport.
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"There are too many of us - foreigners out!" On February 9, 2014, a narrow majority of Swiss voters backed an initiative to curb immigration from EU member states. The results of the vote showed a wide city-countryside divide over this issue.
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"The only country in the world where you vote so nothing changes" [Polling office].
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On September 22, 2013 voters in Italian-speaking Switzerland agreed to ban face-covering headgear in cantonal public places.
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In 2009 a majority of Swiss voters agreed to ban the building of new minarets in Switzerland.
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"A giant leap for me". Since 1992 Swiss citizens have voted on several initiatives rejecting the idea of joining the European Union.
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The Swiss approach voting with a refreshing “studious enthusiasm”, jokes Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chappatte. However, over the past 15 years direct democracy has become a weapon used by manipulators and populists, he warns.
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