Friday, October 24, 2014

Swiss ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ Gold Initiative Campaigns Compete at Launches in Bern

Swiss ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ Gold Initiative Campaigns Compete at Launches in Bern Contents - Introduction - ‘Yes’ Campaign Launch - Paper Decays, Gold Holds Its Value - ‘No’ Campaign Launch - Alphabet Soup - Unsaleable Gold Like an Unusable Fire Extinguisher? - Swiss Electorate 5.2 Million - Double Majority Including Cantons - Referendas by the Dozen - Sometimes There are Shock Results Swiss Flag in the Swiss Alps Introduction In what was an extraordinary first salvo in the head-to-head gold referendum battle that will take place in Switzerland over the next five weeks, yesterday witnessed the launch of both the “Save our Swiss Gold” (Gold Initiative)” campaign and the opposing “Cross-party Committee against the Gold Initiative” campaign in Switzerland’s political capital, Bern. Switzerland’s potentially historic gold initiative referendum takes place on Sunday 30th November. First up was the Gold Initiative Action Committee, the initiators of the gold initiative and the advocates of a ‘Yes’ in the referendum, who launched their campaign at a 10:30am press conference in the conference hall of the Federal Palace Media Centre in Bern[1].



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