61% of voters gave their support to the Covid Law.
The Swiss endorsed today in a vote the law that allows the government to impose the so-called “covid passport” on citizens who want to enjoy certain services or access certain places, such as eating inside a restaurant, going to the movies, to mass , to a show, or to attend a sporting event of more than 1,000 people.
61% of voters gave their support to the Covid Law and were not convinced by an aggressive campaign organized by opponents of the regulations imposed by the document that proves that a person is completely immunized against covid-19, either because they have received the necessary doses of a vaccine against this disease or that is in possession of a negative test.
This same law provides for economic aid to the sectors most economically affected by the pandemic. If this legislative framework had been rejected in today’s referendum, the Government would have had its hands tied to renew those aid, which expire in the first months of 2022, even if it had deemed it necessary.
Several Swiss cities were the scene in recent weeks of protests over the imposition of the health passport, which, unlike other European countries, is not necessary to take public transport or to go to the workplace.
The promoters of the referendum against this document affirmed that its increasingly widespread use places the unvaccinated in a situation of discrimination, violates their freedoms and constitutes an indirect obligation to vaccinate.
They also opposed the electronic tracking of contacts of a contaminated person that is contemplated in the Covid Law,
With the exception of the extreme right, all Swiss political parties asked citizens to support the Covid Law, considering it as the only means for the population to maintain a more or less normal life. (I)
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