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Swiss voters reject plan to cut funding for state broadcaster
About 62% of Swiss voters opposed reducing the annual licence fee from 335 CHF to 200 CHF, maintaining funding to support multilingual media and prevent disinformation risks.
- On Sunday, Swiss voters rejected a proposal to cut funding for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, with 62% opposing and 38% supporting the initiative.
- The Swiss People's Party argued the fee was too high amid rising living costs and backed cutting it to 200 francs with businesses exempt, while the government and other parliamentary parties opposed the proposal.
- Opponents warned cuts would undermine Switzerland's four languages—French, German, Italian and Romantsch—and reduce foreign news and sports coverage, noting the licence fee exceeds those in Austria and Germany.
- The government has already decided to reduce the contribution to 300 Swiss francs by 2029, and under planned changes more companies will be exempt from fees.
- In a separate referendum, the cash measure saw around 70% backing for the government counterproposal while the citizens' movement MSL insisted on 'coins and banknotes'.
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The initiative, called "200 francs, that's enough!" was promoted by the right-wing nationalist Union démocratique du centre (UDC), which planned to raise the fee from 335 francs to 200 francs and completely exempt companies.
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The Swiss referendum to reduce the broadcasting contribution clearly failed: about 62 percent of the votes spoke against the initiative '200 francs are
Voters in Switzerland today rejected a reduction in the annual household contribution to public broadcaster SRG in a referendum on several issues, according to projections.
Also with the no to the SRG initiative a lot comes to the media house. An overview.
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