In the middle of the fifth wave, the Swiss broadly approved on Sunday the law that made it possible to create the Covid pass, at the end of a stormy election campaign, causing the police to fear new demonstrations during the day.
According to the first numerical projections of the polling institute gfs.bern, the law was accepted by 63%, with a margin of error of 3 points.
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This referendum, which had been launched by the anti-pass, comes as the new Omicron variant detected by South Africa and described as "
worrying
" by the World Health Organization, has plunged the planet back into a state of alert .
A sign of unusual tensions in Switzerland, the police have raised a fence in front of the seat of government and parliament in Bern, in anticipation of protests during the day.
The campaign was marked by numerous demonstrations, sometimes banned and punctuated by violence, but far from scenes of riots such as those which took place in the Netherlands or the French West Indies.
But the rise of tensions in Switzerland, a country renowned for its culture of dialogue and compromise and where referendums are organized several times a year in a peaceful atmosphere, had the effect of an electric shock.
Many politicians, including the Minister of Health Alain Berset, who for two years has come to embody the fight against Covid in the Alpine country, have been threatened with death and are now placed under police protection.
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The Swiss also said 61% yes to a popular initiative on nursing care which calls on the Confederation to guarantee "
appropriate remuneration
" for care services.
A majority of the cantons must also approve for it to pass.
These two votes come as Switzerland, like other countries, has experienced an outbreak of infections since mid-October.
But unlike other countries in the same case, the government has so far refused to toughen national control measures, arguing that the occupancy of intensive care beds by Covid patients was relatively low at this time. day (20%).
