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Switzerland to vote to cap population at 10 mil
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:35 pm
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Switzerland will be answering on Sunday when voters go the polls to decide on a proposal to cap their population at 10 million.
The move is backed by the right-wing Swiss People's Party, which describes it as a "sustainability initiative" aimed at easing pressure on housing, public services and the environment.
The Swiss government, all other major parties, business leaders and trade unions have dubbed the proposal a "chaos initiative", arguing it will deprive hospitals and hotels of much needed staff, and damage hard-won relations with the European Union, leaving non-EU member Switzerland isolated in a very risky world.
Switzerland's population has grown rapidly since 2002, when it stood at 7.3 million. Now it is 9.1 million, 27% of whom are foreign residents.
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The latest opinion polls indicate this could be a very close vote.
They suggest voters are inching towards a no vote by a wafer thin margin, with 52% opposed - but polls remain divided, with 45% saying they are in favour of the proposal and a significant number of voters still undecided
BBC
This post was edited on 6/12/26 at 6:35 pm
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Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:36 pm to TigerintheNO
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They suggest voters are inching towards a no vote by a wafer thin margin, with 52% opposed
Over half of this 52% would regret this vote within 5 years.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:38 pm to TigerintheNO
More people=more GDP=more gooder
Atleast thats what astute libertarians tell me.
Atleast thats what astute libertarians tell me.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:39 pm to TigerintheNO
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Switzerland's population has grown rapidly since 2002,
Impressive!
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27% of whom are foreign residents.
Oh well.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:42 pm to TigerintheNO
My family was originally from Switzerland I was there last year. So clean so beautiful, very little crime; top 5 in world regarding safety. They better maintain and be damn careful who they let in there country..
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:47 pm to Turnblad85
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More people=more GDP=more gooder Atleast thats what astute libertarians tell me.
Generally true historically. But first this should be done through natural birth rate and maintaining a largely homogeneous population with select immigration of talented people who can assimilate. Bringing in poor uneducated uncivilized people drain more resources than contribute.
But going forward technology and AI mean GDP growth with less workers. Though you need consumers but ideally you should be able to produce goods cheaper and export more to poorer nations
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:50 pm to TigerintheNO
Club of Rome is headquartered in Switzerland.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 7:44 pm to TigerintheNO
So you end up either enforcing this on the front end by capping birth rates and immigration, which will dramatically affect your ability to support social welfare especially for the elderly....or you enforce it on the backend by limiting the type of medical care you give to the elderly. "maybe we give them a pain pill instead of treatment". Either choice will inevitably lead to the same result unless they start curbing social welfare programs and encouraging, promoting, increasing birth rates by rewarding traditional family structures.
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