Swiss voters reject 10 million population cap

Swiss voters rejected a proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 million , with nearly 55% voting against the measure, the BBC reported. The initiative would have forced cuts to immigration to keep the population below the threshold.

The result keeps Switzerland’s relatively open labor migration intact, a meaningful outcome for an economy that leans on foreign workers, and signals that even in a country with a strong tradition of direct-democracy curbs on immigration, a hard demographic ceiling was a step too far for a majority of voters.

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