Posted on 11/25/2018 10:53:44 AM PST by Olog-hai
Swiss voters have clearly rejected a proposal to give the neutral country’s laws priority over international law, a move that critics claimed would have deeply damaged its global standing and hurt its economy.
Some 63 percent of voters in a national referendum on Sunday voted against the “Swiss law, not foreign judges” measure, according to the second round of projections by broadcaster SRF.
The measure, backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), called for a provision to be added to the national constitution giving it explicit precedence over international agreements.
Where there is a clash between the two, Switzerland would have had to alter its international obligations so they complied with its constitution or quit the international agreement.
Backers argued that neutral Switzerland’s historic autonomy was being watered down by its participation in international agreements covering areas like environmental protection, police cooperation, air transport and trade. […]
They were opposed by the Swiss government, business groups and most other parties, who said the proposal would force Switzerland to cancel existing treaties, weaken human rights protections and hurt its economy. …
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63 percent of voters in a national referendum on Sunday voted against the “Swiss law, not foreign judges” measure
Fools.
Yodeling Fools.
The Allies should’ve let the Nazis have them
Nations are collapsing
Reason #188 why I’m damn glad that I wasn’t born in Switzerland...a nation of spineless cowards.
Check for voting fraud.
I travel often to Zurich, and inevitably, the rest of this lovely country. The SVP is hardly “right-wing” in the sense the author intends it to be. They are moderately conservative, but are in the middle of liberal Europe which is used for comparison.
Europe is fallen. Rejoined to their Roman gods and the laws of those gods.
There are democrats in Switzerland?
Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. -- Woodrow Wilson, "Socialism and Democracy", 1887
Oh.. no.. Not Switzerland too :(
Our struggle is nationalism vs. globalism
That’s the same one that confronted Germany in the 1920’s.
The general trend is headed to a bad place.
Switzerland: WHY did you do this to yourselves??
To the Swiss: May the Iranians, Somalis, ChiComs, Pakistanis, Cubans, etc,etc,etc ... rule you. IDIOTS !
They generally get things right in these votes, particularly regarding immigration and immigrant behavior, but Soros must have dumped some BIG MONEY into this one, without them knowing.
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