Swiss voters on Sunday decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams or other forms, as all men must do already.

Official results. with counting still ongoing in some areas after a referendum, showed that more than half of Switzerland’s cantons, or states, had rejected the “citizen service initiative” by wide margins. That meant it was defeated, because proposals need a majority of both voters and cantons to pass.

Voters also heavily rejected a separate proposal to impose a new national tax on individual donations or inheritances of more than 50 million francs ($62 million), with the revenues to be used to fight the impact of climate change and help Switzerland meet its ambitions to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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    4 hours ago

    The takes on here are wild as a Swiss dude.

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      Hint: Mandatory service is a problem.

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        Mandatory service is not a problem. As long as we live in a world with countries like russia mandatory service does more good than harm.

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          Isreal uses its mandatory service to get teenagers to support genocide.