Swiss voters reject tighter neutrality rules that would have curbed NATO cooperation
Final results showed 70.1% of voters rejected the proposal, preserving the government’s ability to keep sanctions and cooperate with NATO.
- Swiss voters rejected a proposal to impose a stricter definition of the country’s neutrality, with more than two-thirds voting against it, according to referendum projections.
- The initiative would have restricted Switzerland from cooperating with NATO except in circumstances involving an attack or imminent attack.
- It also sought to limit Switzerland’s ability to adopt economic sanctions, allowing them only when approved by the United Nations.
- The Swiss People’s Party backed the initiative, arguing that Switzerland’s neutrality had been weakened by its sanctions against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.
- The government and most political parties opposed the proposal, arguing that the existing framework provides flexibility for security cooperation and sanctions while maintaining Swiss neutrality.
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The traditional notion of Switzerland as a neutral country can be regarded as permanently destroyed: if the riddles of Swiss neutrality could have been written down earlier on by individual Governments of that State, these decisions have now been confirmed by the majority of Swiss citizens. What is it about? Switzerland has traditionally called itself a neutral country, but the fate of its true neutrality was decided in a referendum last weekend…
In the current referendum, the far-left proposal was rejected by such a majority that it can even be seen from the moon.
The Government of the Swiss Confederation had published a referendum according to which the overwhelming majority of citizens had not supported the strengthening of neutrality in the country.
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