@divegeester saidA cursory search last night only turned up Metal-brainy sites that are talking about this in English, so for all I know this whole matter is just a fairy tale. On the other hand we're talking about a genuine Swiss political party with the word "people" in its name, and such parties usually have their summer homes on the far side of the moon.
Link please?
The first hit I got:
https://rmx.news/article/swiss-national-referendum-will-limit-population-to-10-million-through-strict-immigration-control-to-save-environment/
The keywords I used in Google (which will turn up many more hits):
switzerland population referendum ten million 2022
@Soothfast
It’s a non-news item. A search of 8 Swiss news sites turns up nothing.
A referendum could be held, if enough signatures were gathered, to introduce a new law limiting the population. It wouldn’t pass. Switzerland can’t fill all the jobs with only citizen labor.
SWITZERLAND: POPULAR POLITICAL PARTY CALLS FOR REFERENDUM ON IMMIGRATION
The Swiss People’s Party (SVP) has called for a referendum on immigration amid concerns that Switzerland cannot cope with increasingly high numbers of migrants entering the country.
The SVP, which is the most popular party in Switzerland, called for a referendum to be held to allow the country to renegotiate or opt out of international treaties should the nation’s population reach ten million.
Over 100,000 migrants entered Switzerland in 2022, 70,000 of whom were from Ukraine. Figures also show that in 2021 130, 997 asylum applications were made.
SVP campaign manager Marcel Dettling said “Our country is cracking in every corner. We are going through the debacles of recent years. If we don’t intervene, we will be overtaken by events,
This proposed referendum is not the first of its kind in Switzerland. In 2014 a referendum to stop mass immigration was passed on a 50.3% majority.
Switzerland enacted freedom of movement laws in 2007 leading as many as 80,000 people to cross into the country.
According to reports some Swiss people are concerned about issues like lack of access to housing, overcrowding on public transport, and lack of access to health services and education.
Although the referendum was passed by a majority of voters having attracted a significant turnout of 56% of the electorate, parliament reportedly watered down the effects of the vote.
Another issue of public concern are the demographics of the prison population in the country. According to figures produced by the Council of Europe in 2019 over 71% of those incarcerated were foreign nationals.
@moonbus saidWell it could pass since the most popular party is putting it forward.
@Soothfast
It’s a non-news item. A search of 8 Swiss news sites turns up nothing.
A referendum could be held, if enough signatures were gathered, to introduce a new law limiting the population. It wouldn’t pass. Switzerland can’t fill all the jobs with only citizen labor.
Also, a cancer cell thinks about exponential growth.
Not every country can or wants to have a constant growth and change period. At least not at the expense of the country losing its identity and culture because of immigration.
Limited population is a nice way of saying we don't want anymore immigrants because we don't want to end up like other European countries that make the news weekly with crap about immigrants.
@booger saidhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_People%27s_Party
Well it could pass since the most popular party is putting it forward.
The SVP has never garnered more than 29.4% of the vote in elections. A referendum to enact policy would require at least 50%.
As for the rest of your blithering, save it for your next Bund meeting. I'm all for enacting measures to rein in unchecked growth, but not for the hateful reasons that pitch your tent.
@Soothfast
Yet you're all for CNN putting out anti white opinion pieces ya Hypocrite.
Still no CNN article that explains they were wrong about their guess and I do not imagine they will update any power grid attacks articles...
@booger said1. No party in the Swiss govt commands a majority. No party can pass legislation single-handedly. The SVP has a long history of proposing xenophobic laws which do not pass; it’s a non-news item by now. Just got air.
Well it could pass since the most popular party is putting it forward.
Also, a cancer cell thinks about exponential growth.
Not every country can or wants to have a constant growth and change period. At least not at the expense of the country losing its identity and culture because of immigration.
Limited population is a nice way of saying we don't want anymore immig ...[text shortened]... t want to end up like other European countries that make the news weekly with crap about immigrants.
2. A referendum is a plebiscite, the entire voting population determines whether it passes or not, not one party.
3. Even if such a referendum were to pass, it would not thereby become law. The govt still has the option to counter-propose a different or similar law to the one proposed by the referendum.
4. Such a referendum would not pass. The Swiss economy cannot function without foreign labor.
5. Switzerland already has very high hurdles for immigrants. 12 years residency have to elapse before one can apply for citizenship.
@booger said94% of inmates in Switzerland are men.
71 percent of inmates were foreigners.
Must be a coincidence 🙄
You're a "man," aren't you? By your own logic that makes you easily more undesirable to any civil society than a female foreigner. Maybe you shouldn't be allowed to travel to Switzerland, or anywhere else for that matter.
@booger saidAnother non sequitur, tinged with the butt-hurt of a little kid beaten on the playground.
@Soothfast
Yet you're all for CNN putting out anti white opinion pieces ya Hypocrite.
Still no CNN article that explains they were wrong about their guess and I do not imagine they will update any power grid attacks articles...
@booger saidThis isn't news, and I've never said otherwise. There are myriad reasons for it. The percentage is exceptionally high in Switzerland. In Germany it's 25%. In Finland it's 16%.
@Soothfast
Hey everyone! losefast is all butthurt because non whites fill prisons.
Hahaha
But you aren't interested in learning. You haven't the wits to grasp complex social issues. You just want to hate on people, and here you can do it for free. You're just dirt.
@booger saidIn case a lurker here is curious, this article talks a bit about the Swiss prison population. Some of its statistics are outdated:
@Soothfast
Hey everyone! losefast is all butthurt because non whites fill prisons.
Hahaha
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/crime-statistics_why-are-most-of-switzerland-s-prisoners-foreign-/44897698
Remember that Switzerland is completely surrounded by the European Union, and many of the foreign prisoners are citizens of EU nations that are caught working illegally in Switzerland.
Others are EU citizens who came to commit a crime specifically in Switzerland, due to a belief that they're less likely to be scruffed by the comparatively shorter reach of Swiss police.
Many are tourists. Switzerland is a small nation, so it has an exceptionally high tourist-to-native ratio.
Many are refugees, but the Swiss tend to detain these persons in a prison at higher rates than other European nations in the course of doing background checks and other investigatory work.
For the latest prison demographics:
https://www.prisonstudies.org/world-prison-brief-data
@averagejoe1 saidSwitzerland does not have an open border, imbecile.
Do you open border people here grasp the concept, where, above, “Switzerland cannot cope with increasingly high numbers of migrants entering the country.”
What are they saying?