Pension fund reform has mobilized voters on average
Published: Sunday, Sep 22nd 2024, 16:42
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The pension fund reform and the biodiversity initiative mobilized voters to an average extent. Around 45% of eligible voters cast their vote on the two proposals.
It turns out that proposals on old-age provision are received differently. The turnout for the four federal proposals last March, including the initiative for a 13th AHV pension, was around 58%.
Two years ago, when it came to raising the AHV retirement age for women to 65, around 51% went to the polls. For the reform of the second pillar of occupational pensions, the figure was around 45%.
Until 1950, voter turnout in Switzerland averaged around 60 percent. In the following 20-year cycles, it initially fell to 48% and then to 41%. In some years, not even 40 percent of the electorate bothered to go to the polls.
Participation has been rising again since the turn of the millennium, most recently to 46%. This is the average for 2011-2020 according to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
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