Swiss voters on Sunday narrowly backed a ban on full-face coverings in public places - a decision hailed by supporters as a bulwark against radical Islam but branded as discriminatory by opponents. Official results showed that 51.2% of voters, and a clear majority of federal Switzerland s cantons, supported the proposal.
Swiss voters on Sunday narrowly backed a ban on full face coverings in public places a decision hailed by supporters but branded as discriminatory by opponents. Official results showed that 51.2% of voters, and a clear majority of federal Switzerland s cantons, supported the proposal. The so-called anti-burqa vote came after years of debate in Switzerland following similar bans in other European countries and in some Muslim-majority states despite women in Islamic full-face veils being an exceptionally rare sight in Swiss streets. Some 1,426,992 voters were in favour of the ban, while 1,359,621 were against, on a 50.8% turnout. The proposal
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