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Reform Of Elections For Swiss Top Judges Thrown Out

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Reform Of Elections For Swiss Top Judges Thrown OutThis article published by Swissinfo.ch is written by Urs Geiser. Here is an excerpt:

The people’s initiative only won about 31.9% of the vote on Sunday according to official results. None of the country’s 26 cantons came out in favour.

Entrepreneur Adrian Gasser, the main sponsor of the proposal, said he would launch a new initiative because he didn’t have enough time to convince voters of the “abuses in the legal system”.

He said the government and the media had manipulated the public opinion in the run-up to Sunday’s ballot, according to the Swiss news agency, Keystone-SDA. 

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