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«Fair Food Initiative»

General information
Official title Volksinitiative «Für gesunde sowie umweltfreundlich und fair hergestellte Lebensmittel (Fair-Food-Initiative)»
Voting day 23.09.2018
Voting result Rejected (38.70% Yes votes and 4.0 out of 23 votes of the Cantons)
Vote Nº 621
Legal form Popular initiative
Policy area Agriculture > Agricultural policy
Brief description by Swissvotes PDF (in German)
Description by Année Politique Suisse Link (in German / French)
Text subject to vote PDF (in German)
Official Chronology Link (in German)
Collection of signatures
Initiators Grüne Partei
Preliminary examination PDF (in German)
Signatures 105,540
Time used to collect signatures 548 days
Success PDF (in German)
Pre-parliamentary phase
Federal Council dispatch PDF (in German)
Parliamentary phase
Item Nº 16.073
Parliamentary debate PDF / Link (in German / French)
Duration of proceedings 506 days
Parliament's position Reject
Position of the National Council Reject (37 Yes, 139 No)
Position of the Council of States Reject (1 Yes, 34 No)
Public campaign
Official explanatory brochure PDF (in German)
Position of the Federal Council Reject
Online information by the federal authorities
Explainer video by easyvote Link (in German)
Explanatory brochure by easyvote PDF (in German)
Recommendations by parties
Yes
EVP
GPS
KVP
PdA
SD
SPS
No
BDP
CVP
EDU
FDP
FPS
SVP
Free vote
GLP
Electoral share of 'yes' camp 28.8% (Details)
Recommendations by others
Yes
Schweizer Tierschutz STS
Biosuisse
Swissaid
No
eco
SGV
Gastrosuisse
Free vote
SBV
None
TravS
Deviating party sections
Yes
BDP VD
CVP JU
GLP NE
GLP SG
SVP VD
Free vote
BDP GL
CVP BE
EVP BS
EVP SH
EVP TG
SPS GR
Number of adverts in print media 279
Percentage of adverts for a 'yes' 14%
Analysis of the advertising campaign by Année Politique PDF (in German)
Media coverage: number of articles 329
Media coverage: tonality -13 (predominantly negative)
Media coverage: fög analysis PDF / Link (in German)
Documents from the campaign Display the list of documents
Graphical campaign material for a Yes Show all
Graphical campaign material for a No Show all
Vote
Voting result Rejected
People Rejected (38.70% Yes votes)
Cantons Rejected (4.0 Yes, 19.0 No)
Rejected
AG
AI
AR
BE
BL
BS
FR
GL
GR
LU
NW
OW
SG
SH
SO
SZ
TG
TI
UR
VS
ZG
ZH
Accepted
GE
JU
NE
VD
Turnout 37.52%
Decree on voting result PDF (in German)
Result by canton, district and municipality Excel (in German)
Overview of voting result by the Federal Chancellery Link (in German)
Interactive map by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office Display the map
Post-vote poll
Full analysis of post-vote poll results PDF (in German)