In a referendum on the controversial removal of cow horns voted Sunday 53 percent of participants against the initiative of the mountain farmers Armin Capaul, as the opinion research institute gfs.bern announced on the basis of first projections.
Capaul, who keeps cows in Perrefitte in the canton of Bern, had collected more than 100,000 signatures for the so-called Hornkuh initiative and thus became a media star in Switzerland. He did not want to prohibit the removal of Kuhhörern. But he said that farmers who do not remove their horns from their cows and other grazers receive additional government subsidies. Environmentalists and animal rights activists were behind his request, but the government was in favor of a no vote.
In a second vote, the Swiss gave the green light on Sunday social insurance, insured to be monitored on suspicion of abuse by detectives. In March, the Swiss government passed a law allowing secret surveillance of insured persons if there are specific indications of unlawful benefits. According to gfs.bern, according to the projections, 67 percent of the participants voted in favor of the law.
A third initiative of the right-wing populist Swiss People's Party (SVP), which always wanted to give Swiss justice priority over international justice, had no success. For the so-called self-determination initiative, according to the information agreed only 33 percent of participants.