Seven referendums were held in

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

in 1987. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1931 The first four were held on 5 April on amendments to the laws on asylum and foreign residents (both approved), a

popular initiative A popular initiative (also citizens' initiative) is a form of direct democracy by which a petition meeting certain hurdles can force a legal procedure on a proposition. In direct initiative, the proposition is put directly to a plebiscite o ...

"for the people's co-determination of military expenditure" (rejected) and a federal resolution on the voting system for

s that also have counter-proposals (approved). The last three were held on 6 December on a federal resolution on the

Rail 2000 Rail 2000 (German: ''Bahn 2000''; French: ''Rail 2000'', Italian: ''Ferrovia 2000'') is a large-scale project of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) established in 1987 to improve the quality of the Swiss rail network for the N ...

project (approved), an amendment to the federal law on health insurance (rejected) and a

"for the protection of

fen A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. It is one of the main types of wetland along with marshes, swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires ...

s - Rothenthurm Initiative" (approved).

Results

April: Amendment to the asylum law

April: Amendment to the foreign residents law

April: Military expenditure

April: Voting procedure for popular initiatives

December: Rail 2000

December: Amendment to the Health insurance law

December: Fen protection ( Rothenthurm initiative)

References

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