Tax rules for multinationals, carbon neutrality, anti-Covid measures: on Switzerland’s first vote Sunday of the year, citizens will tuck into a rich menu of issues. Vote day is just around the corner, but do you know what a referendum is? Swiss citizens have the right to play a direct role in political decision-making. A referendum is a nationwide vote called to challenge a piece of legislation already approved by parliament. If a group opposed to the new law manages to collect at least 50,000 s

The “Landsgemeinde” open-air assembly – the oldest form of direct democracy in Switzerland – is happening in the small canton of Appenzell Inner Rhodes this Sunday. It will be followed soon after by Glarus, the only other Swiss canton that still preserves this form of democracy, where voters gather en masse to decide on laws and expenditure. The Swiss are more involved in political decision-making than any other people on earth. Between 1900 and 2020, Swiss citizens were eligible to take part in

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