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Swiss vote for tougher asylum law
[Pak Daily Times] The Swiss voted overwhelmingly Sunday in favour of a controversial government move to tighten the country's asylum law amid a spike in refugees. Some 79 percent of voters embraced changes made to the asylum law last September as applications soared to their highest level in over a decade, according to final results of a national referendum published by public broadcaster SSR. Opponents of the asylum law revision, which includes the removal of military desertion from a list of valid grounds for seeking asylum in Switzerland...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , voiced deep disappointment at their defeat. Parliamentarian Anne Seydoux-Christie, speaking against the official line of her Christian Democratic Party, meanwhile lamented that "this marks a weakening of our humanitarian tradition, and certainly a lack of solidarity towards what is happening in countries in serious crisis". Posted by: Fred 2013-06-10 |
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