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freedom to grant (or not) foreigners the right to vote at municipal level. Had this bill been approved, it would have allowed foreigners the right to vote provided...

the right to vote, is sometimes extended to non-citizens. This right varies widely by place in terms of which non-citizens are allowed to vote and in which...

suffrage in Switzerland List of Swiss federal referendums Right of foreigners to vote in Switzerland Direct democracy Landsgemeinde Panachage Politics of Switzerland...

Act on the Residence and Establishment of Foreigners of 1934. Switzerland and Australia, with about a quarter of their population born outside the country...

terminal disease. In what critics have termed suicide tourism, Swiss euthanasia organisations have been widely used by foreigners. As of 2008, German citizens...

right-wing populist political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Marcel Dettling, it is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 62 members of the...

franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages...

is the right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal...

The Freedom Party of Switzerland (FPS) (German: Freiheits-Partei der Schweiz; French: Parti suisse de la liberté / PSL) is a minor right-wing populist political...

children and resident foreigners who do not have the right to vote). Based on the official population count recorded at the end of 2020, Basel-Stadt lost...

to Swiss-based job seekers (Swiss nationals and foreigners registered in Swiss job agencies) but does not limit the free movement of EU workers to Switzerland...

1963. Switzerland was the last Western republic (the Principality of Liechtenstein followed in 1984) to grant women the right to vote. Some Swiss cantons...

popular initiative "For the Expulsion of Criminal Foreigners," also known as the "expulsion initiative," is a Swiss popular initiative approved by the people...

bound in their vote to instructions from the cantonal authorities. Under the Swiss Federal Constitution, the mode of election to the Council of States...

2007, or relative to the number of Swiss citizens from 0.16% in 1990 to 0.73% in 2007. Foreigners in the following category can apply to have their nationality...

the powers of sovereignty to an elected aristocracy, was most evident in the Roman right to suffragium. Cicero argues that the right to vote provided Roman...

Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, is a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian...

municipal law. In some cantons, foreigners who have lived for a certain time in Switzerland are also allowed to participate in municipal politics. As at the...

including the right to vote in regional elections. However, they are not entitled to hold territorial passports or stand for office in some Legislative...

7.8% of the vote respectively. As in the previous election, the Swiss People's Party received the most votes, but its share of votes went down to 25.6%...