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13:13
The group for a Switzerland without an army (Gsoa), co-initiator of the popular initiative “For a ban on the financing of war material producers”, speaks of a good result despite the rejection. Because the proportion of yes votes is high.
Gsoa secretary Nadia Kuhn told the Keystone-SDA news agency that the high approval rate for the initiative could be “seen as a success”.
The opponents would have had much more financial means than the initiative committee made up of Gsoa and the Young Greens. The opponents had – apparently with success – focused on the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), “although these are actually not affected”.
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12:50
The cantons of Schaffhausen and Appenzell Ausserrhoden reject the initiative. Initial projections also show no trends in the cantons of Zurich and St.Gallen.
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12:01
The popular initiative “For a ban on the financing of war material producers (war business initiative)” is likely to be clearly rejected. This is shown by the trend calculation by gfs.bern on behalf of SRG. That means the status quo remains.
In the SRG poll on November 8th, a majority was in favor of the initiative. The opponents’ side has caught up in the past three weeks – not unusual for a popular initiative.
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This is what the results from the communities look like so far:
The initiative “For a ban on the financing of war material producers” demands that the Swiss National Bank (SNB), foundations and state and occupational pension institutions should be prohibited from financing war material producers. It comes from the pen of the group for a Switzerland without an army (GSoA). In the last trend surveys, there was a slight yes trend, but everything is still open.
Starting position & template:
In Switzerland, the financing, manufacture and trade in nuclear weapons, biological and chemical weapons, anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions are prohibited. The initiative wants to extend this financing ban to all types of war material, including pistols, assault rifles and armored personnel carriers. On the one hand, war material producers should no longer receive loans; on the other hand, the ownership of shares in war material producers and shares in funds that contain such shares should be prohibited.
According to the initiative, all companies that generate more than five percent of their annual turnover from the manufacture of war material would be considered as war material producers. The initiators are particularly targeting the Swiss National Bank, foundations and pension funds (AHV / IV / EO) with their project.
The war material initiative should not be confused with the so-called correction initiative, which aims to prevent arms exports to civil war countries. This will come to the urn at the earliest next year.
Ja-Parole: SP, Greens, EPP, GSoA
No slogan: SVP, CVP, FDP, GLP, EDU, Federal Council, parliamentary majority, economiesuisse, Swiss Employers’ Association, Swissmem, Swiss Pension Fund Association, SwissBanking
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