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shafyy | 15 days ago

Because it's very likely against the Swiss constitution

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Youden|15 days ago

"Against the Swiss constitution" doesn't really make sense here. This is a popular initiative; if accepted, it amends the Swiss constitution. Here's the text: https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/vi/vis555t.html

The only way you could argue an initiative is "against the Swiss constitution" in my opinion would be if it runs afoul of the rules: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1999/404/en#tit_4/chap_2

Unless you want to argue that this violates the mandatory provisions of international law, I don't think you have an argument. The text of the amendment specifically clarifies that any of the actions it mandates on parliament have to adhere to the mandatory provisions of international law, so I don't think that's an avenue you can pursue.

shafyy|12 days ago

You are right, I forgot how xenophobic my native Switzerland is. Unlike e.g. Germany, they don't really have something in the constitution regarding helping immigrants.

However, they do have Art. 7 (human dignity) and Art. 8 (equality before law), which applies not only to Swiss citizens, but to all humans. I don't know about you, but I would think that excluding refugees who need help because we already have 10M people in the country would be against their human dignity.

KellyCriterion|15 days ago

Please elaborate and send me the link to the relevant www.parlament.ch docs :)

outside1234|15 days ago

Let’s pretend it’s within the constitution. How are they going to enforce this?

For baby 10M+1 are they going to tell a Swiss woman that she can’t have a baby?

In any case, this is definitely not conformant to the treaty that the Swiss have with the EU around rights of free movement.