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Most Swiss back initiative to cap population at 10M
- AussieWog93 6mo agoTo anyone else wondering how they can implement this, it seems to be a cap on migration more than births.
- gridder 6mo ago.
- ano-ther 6mo agoIs 52% “most“ (headline) or “a slim majority“ (article)?
- hammock 6mo agoTwo percent of Switzerland is 200k people. Which is about how many people immigrate there every year
- ano-ther 6mo agoMy 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/abstimmungen/stimmbeteiligung.html https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/politik/abs... [2] https://www.sem.admin.ch/sem/de/home/publiservice/statistik/auslaenderstatistik/monitor.html https://www.sem.admin.ch/sem/de/home/publiservice/statistik/...
- hammock 6mo agoNet migration is not as relevant as inmigration, which is what I was referencing fyi