The Swiss press has interpreted the "no" vote on the ‘Swiss law first’ initiative on Sunday as a sign of confidence in existing institutions and as a rejection of a misleading and radical proposal presented by the conservative moral Swiss People’s Party. Neue Zürcher Zeitung "There is a lot of relief - in politics,business and civil society. The electorate has flatly rejected the initiative, thus fending off another attack by the [Swiss People’s Party] on institutions. Reason has triumphed. In the wake of an emotionally driven voting battle, and this was not a foregone conclusion. Proponents had promised heaven on earth with the self-determination initiative: strengthening direct democracy,persistently low taxes, staying out of the EU. (...) But the electorate was neither blinded by counterfeit promises nor convinced by radical counterfeit solutions. (...) With the "no" to the self-determination initiative, or a rather unsuitable solution for regulating the relationship between national law and ...
Source: swissinfo.ch