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Old February 9th, 2014 #91
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Why was this? (in your opinion) Were the infiltrators themselves allowed a vote?
Basel-Stadt is what we call a half-state. The other half is Basel-Landschaft. Stadt means "city" which means leftists and Landschaft means "country-side" which means farmers and peasants. The state split up for this reason in 1833.

Zurich is known as the economic capital of Switzerland. All the Jews live there... There is of course a country-side but the demographics must have played against them.

Zoug hosts a lot of companies and multi-nationals as it's the state where they will have to pay the less taxes. However it was refused there with 50.1%.

Only people with Swiss nationality are allowed to vote. There is, however, at least 700,000 persons alive who have been naturalized.

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