The Swiss rejects citizen – Västerbotten Courier

Economy. There was no breakthrough for the citizen, when the Swiss were the first the world had the chance to hold a referendum on a guaranteed basic income without the obligation to work.

a national forecast as polling institute GFS has done today shows that 78 percent of voters rejected the proposal. Most voters, postal voting and the votes have already been counted, so the GPS anticipates a margin of error of plus / minus three percent, reports AFP.

The initiators of the referendum on the citizen’s café owner in Basel Daniel Hani and like-minded. He considers himself, despite him disappointing results, yet have won a moral victory.

– As a businessman, I’m a realist, and had counted 15 per cent support, now it looks like the 20 percent or even 25 percent. I think it is indescribable and sensational, says Hani told Reuters.

Switzerland is the first to hold a referendum on the introduction of an unconditional basic income of about 21 000 per month. But in other countries like our neighbor Finland investigated similar proposal.

– When I see the media interest, even from abroad, then I see that we are setting a trend, says Hani.

the idea of ​​a funded citizen put forward by Thomas Paine in a pamphlet, published in 1796. Many other famous people have in his footsteps questioned the work line.

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