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News & Current Events May 8, 2026 at 7:13 AM

First SBC poll shows Swiss evenly split on capping population at ten million

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First SBC poll shows Swiss evenly split on capping population at ten million
SWI swissinfo.ch
First SBC poll shows Swiss evenly split on capping population at ten million
Just over a month before a nationwide vote, the outcome of the 'No to ten million' immigration initiative is too close to call.

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Brief_Hospital_1766 5 days ago +6
Oh! That's good. With an ever decreasing population replacement rate that means we could run out of Swiss eventually!
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[deleted] 5 days ago +2
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TailleventCH 4 days ago +1
UDC/SVP absolutely doesn't support the new bilateral agreement, they call it "submission agreement".
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Chutheman1 5 days ago -5
so if this passes, how they gonna control it? begin to ban people from getting more than X kids like china used to do? gonna execute people if the number goes over 10 million?
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slvrsmth 5 days ago +28
Switzerland has well below replacement fertility rate. This is about immigration.
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PhantasmologicalAnus 5 days ago +16
Yes, they are asking the people who actually live there what they think. I wish my government would do the same.
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ShoulderPast2433 5 days ago +12
It's only in context of immigration. You didn't even open the article, did you?
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Sudden-Ad-4281 5 days ago +3
Context here: [https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/no-to-ten-million-switzerland-vote-should-switzerland-cap-its-population/91246531](https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/no-to-ten-million-switzerland-vote-should-switzerland-cap-its-population/91246531)
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Chutheman1 5 days ago +2
yeah i did read some of the things they will do. like at 9.5m and such, but I just wonder what they will do if nothing works. will they just abandon it all?
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Sudden-Ad-4281 5 days ago +1
That's the big question
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GoodMix392 4 days ago +1
There was a referendum a few years back about immigration. It passed the government couldn’t figure out how to actually implement it and after a certain period it becomes a void referendum because there was no policy that could be agreed upon to make it happen.
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swiwwcheese 5 days ago +3
Make mountaineering on week-ends with the whole family mandatory Alternative: send the overpopulation to live underground in caves (a lot of those there)
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BluehibiscusEmpire 5 days ago +3
Think their domestic population is below replacement rate. A cap will mean less immigration being allowed.
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Lard523 3 days ago +2
Read the article before making stupid comments please.
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