Poll: 63% Of Swiss Want To Vote Again On Fighter Jet Procurement

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Two out of three Swiss people want to vote again on the purchase of fighter jets for the air force, according to a representative poll published today by the information portal Infosperber. This content was published on September 22, 2025 - 15:51 2 minutes Keystone-SDA

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In August, the Demoscope institute asked 1,005 people in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland the following question: 'In the popular vote in 2020 on the purchase of new fighter planes, the Federal Council had guaranteed a maximum cost of CHF6 billion: do you think the vote should be repeated because of the considerable additional costs?'

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Of those polled, 63% answered yes, 31% no, and 6% did not express an opinion. No major differences were found between age groups and genders. On the other hand, the desire to return to the subject was significantly stronger in French-speaking Switzerland (76% yes) than in German-speaking Switzerland (58%).

On September 27, 2020, Swiss voters had narrowly approved the purchase with just 50.1% of the votes. In the Federal Council's explanations that accompanied the ballot papers, the figure of CHF6 billion (about $7.5 billion) appeared several times.

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