In the annual presidential speech to the Swiss abroad, Johann Schneider-Ammann touches on e-voting, a new online platform launching in October and a highlight of 2016, the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel.
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E-voting suffers setback in parliament
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The OSA has called for an end to discrimination of the about 147,000 Swiss living abroad who have registered to take part in votes and elections. “It is difficult to understand how the government gives priority to cantonal autonomy as the introduction of e-voting for the Swiss Abroad is a task of the [national] government,”…
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1. The Gotthard Pass is legendary. As the scene of a swearing of allegiance between the first cantons in 1291 and of resistance against wartime occupation, the Gotthard region has a unique aura. Even the Matterhorn doesn’t have the symbolic value of this massif: the cradle of the confederation, the centre of the Alps, the…
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