2019 Swiss referendums

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Several federal votes has been held in Switzerland in 2019.


A popular initiative named "Stop the Sprawl – for sustainable development in construction", which would have prevented building zones being expanded, with possible exception made for agriculture or public use on the basis that an equivalent amount of land currently registered as building zone be declassified and rewilded.


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Two optional referendums were held on 19 May: one on a law reforming the financing of the Swiss pension system's, and another on transposing the European gun control directive (an update to the Schengen acquis) into Swiss law. Both proposals were approved.

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Ten national referendums were held in Switzerland in 2018
Two referendums were held on 4 March. One was on a Federal Decree on the new Financial Regulation 2021, which would extend the right of the federal government to levy VAT and direct federal tax until 2035. The other was the "Yes to the abolition of radio and television fees" popular initiative, which proposed abolishing the licence fee that provides the majority of funding for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.
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Two referendums were held on 10 June; one on the Sovereign Money Initiative proposal and one on the Federal Gambling Act.
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Three referendums were held on 23 September. The first was aimed at requiring the federal government to consider cycle paths in the same way as footpaths and hiking trails,[6] the second would require the government to promote environmentally sound, animal-friendly and fairly produced foodstuffs,[7] and the third to focus agriculture policy on small, family farms and to promote sustainable, diverse and gene-technology-free agriculture.[8] The cycle paths initiative was approved, whilst the food and agriculture ones were rejected.
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Three referendums were held on 25 November.
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