“Tages-Anzeiger” sees a fiasco for direct democracy
Published: Monday, Sep 2nd 2024, 19:30
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In the view of the Tages-Anzeiger, the newspaper's revelations about allegedly forged signatures have exposed a fiasco for direct democracy. Trust in the state is in danger of dwindling.
"There are currently 16 popular initiatives pending with the federal government that will be put to the people in the next two or three years. Can we be sure on the day of the vote that they have all come about legally? Not in the case of certain initiatives, say experts and those responsible in the cantons. Particularly in the case of referendums that used many paid collectors and only just reached the required 100,000 signatures, there are serious doubts."
This makes it all the more irritating that it took a journalistic investigation to bring the problem to light, according to the Tages-Anzeiger: "The forgery scandal has hit our democracy at a bad time. Trust in the voting process has been shaken anyway since it became known four weeks ago that the people decided on the AHV revision on the basis of false figures."
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