{"id":16262,"date":"2026-02-23T08:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/16262\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:26:08","slug":"what-experience-have-you-had-with-referendums-in-your-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/16262\/","title":{"rendered":"What experience have you had with referendums in your country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many public votes are held in Switzerland, it is not the only country with instruments like popular initiatives and referendums.<\/p>\n<p>Many states \u2013 some democratic, others not \u2013 hold referendums at the local or national levels. Have you ever experienced one? Let us know in the debate below.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/603597065_highres.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" alt=\"Polling station. Mother with pram\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Global elections\n        <\/p>\n<p>        What it takes for a referendum to be fair    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Feb 23, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                Not only democracies hold referendums \u2013 semi-democratic and authoritarian states also run popular votes. Can such ballots ever be fair?            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/global-elections\/what-it-takes-for-a-referendum-to-be-fair\/90967195\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: What it takes for a referendum to be fair<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While many public votes are held in Switzerland, it is not the only country with instruments like popular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[5460,11236,5461,10093,452,11237,327,2143,69,334,2178,41,17,3783],"class_list":["post-16262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-beat-democracy","tag-beat-global-elections","tag-beat-swiss-democracy","tag-citizens-initiative-and-recall","tag-connect-me","tag-debates","tag-direct-democracy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-politics","tag-production-type-adaptation","tag-referenda","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-tpt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}