The Swiss decided to keep their weapons after military service, which strengthened the traditionalists and "defeated the left", announced the Swiss press. They won the initiative for "protection against armed violence" with 56,3 percent of the votes in the referendum. In just six out of a total of 26 Swiss cantons - Geneva, Jura, Vaud, Neuchatel, Zurich and Bal-ville, the majority of citizens supported the initiative. , the most widely read French-language newspaper in Switzerland, assessed that the "big cities" that supported the initiative did everything they could, but that they failed to do more "against the weight of tradition."
In its editorial, the most widely read French-language newspaper in Switzerland said that the "big cities" that supported the initiative had done everything they could, but that they had failed to do more "against the weight of tradition."
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