Swiss reject plans for bigger motorways and extra rights for landlords

The political system might work better than most western democracies, but your claim is categorically untrue.

The elite have strong power in the Swiss system

• Our largest party’s rise to power was because it’s leader was a far-right billionaire. Ever since, that party has been majority billionaire funded.

• Our national bank is 50% owned by private companies.

• Our cooperate lobbying laws are some of the laxest in the western world.

• Our representatives consistently prove to be more elite friendly than the average person, as shown again and again by referendum results vs their government votes.

I’m sick of the upper middle classes in Switzerland consistently saying the system is representative of the wider population.

It’s representative of their classes, not those of us who get by below the poverty wage, not those of us stuck in oppressive nursing home setups, not those of us who fall through the cracks of a system which is so focused on stability it often ignores needed reform. They have some of the worst disability rights laws in western europe. They only gave women the right to vote in the 70s (and in parts of the country, the 90s).

It takes a fundamentally fucked up country where in the same village of population 10,000, disabled people can starve to death whilst being unable to afford medical care, while a 5 minute drive away, there is the villa of a billionaire.

In switzerland the power is very close to the people. We're not a country controled by the elite in the shadows.

Here the vote was very tight showing that there was genuine concern in the population about overly strong tennant protection.

I don't want to see trust eroded in a political system that represents the oppinion of the people well.

Oh that's an easy one. It's because the state serves the interests of capital.

I wonder why there might be government backed initiatives to give more power to landlords