{"id":85237,"date":"2026-06-16T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/85237\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:50:39","slug":"swiss-voters-projected-to-reject-10m-population-cap-in-referendum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/85237\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss voters projected to reject 10M population cap in referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">June 14 (UPI) &#8212; While official tallies have yet to be determined, projections indicate Swiss voters have turned down a proposed law aimed at keeping the country&#8217;s population at 10 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Swiss media are projecting Sunday that the measure will fail, with 54% of people opposed and 46% in favor, <a data-ylk=\"slk:The New York Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/14\/world\/europe\/switzerland-population-cap-referendum.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The proposed law was introduced by Switzerland&#8217;s right-wing Swiss People&#8217;s Party, which said capping the population would ease pressure on transportation, housing and the environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The country&#8217;s population has increased by nearly 25% since 2002, from 7.3 million people to 9.1 million. About 27% of the population are not Swiss citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite the Swiss People&#8217;s Party expressing concern about infrastructure and public services, the political party also has a long history of campaigning against immigration and asylum seekers, blaming racial minorities for problems in the country, the <a data-ylk=\"slk:BBC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c20ygjem17zo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Support for the proposal was strongest in rural areas, the Times reported, with opposition centered in the cities and border regions. Had the measure passed, it could have risked Switzerland&#8217;s relationship with the European Union. More than half of Swiss-made products are sold in the EU, but those trade agreements are dependent on Europe&#8217;s free movement of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 14 (UPI) &#8212; While official tallies have yet to be determined, projections indicate Swiss voters have turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[43517,2691,43518,41,27041,9581,3153,17],"class_list":["post-85237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-polling-station","tag-population","tag-proposed-law","tag-swiss","tag-swiss-citizens","tag-swiss-media","tag-swiss-people39s-party","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116759640520383964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85237","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=85237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}