Most Swiss back initiative to cap population at 10M(reuters.com)
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Most Swiss back initiative to cap population at 10M
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/most-swiss-back-initiative-cap-population-10-million-poll-shows-2026-04-29/
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To anyone else wondering how they can implement this, it seems to be a cap on migration more than births.
Is 52% “most“ (headline) or “a slim majority“ (article)?
Two percent of Switzerland is 200k people. Which is about how many people immigrate there every year
My point was about "most" vs. "slim". Two percent of the 5.6 million voters are 112k people. And since only half of them actually vote, it's a majority of around 56k. [1] That's a slim majority, even for a small country.
The immigration rates don't change that, because the immigrants cannot vote. The net immigration is also smaller, at around 85k per year, not 200k. [2]
[1] https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/politik/abs...
[2] https://www.sem.admin.ch/sem/de/home/publiservice/statistik/...
The immigration rates don't change that, because the immigrants cannot vote. The net immigration is also smaller, at around 85k per year, not 200k. [2]
[1] https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/politik/abs...
[2] https://www.sem.admin.ch/sem/de/home/publiservice/statistik/...
Net migration is not as relevant as inmigration, which is what I was referencing fyi