Update 21:12 Geneva / Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss voters went to the polls Sunday morning to decide two federal issues and a host of cantonal ones. Geneva, in a municipal vote, approved the extension of the World Trade Organization. Vaud voted down a project to combine its cantonal and municipal police forces and Lausanne refused a city project to create two stadiums instead of the one that is part of the Metamorphose urban renewal project. The Swiss said yes in a country-wide vote on increasing the value-added tax temporarily in order to reduce the debt of the federal disability insurance (AI) programme.
Other results, with 90 percent of the vote in: Geneva has said yes to all six items on the ballot, including a smoking ban, a tax on heavy CO2-emitting cars, and lowering taxes.
Vaud has refused to combine its two police forces, but voters have approved the non-stop school day, meaning children can take lunch at school.
Background: Geneva votes on WTO extension, Lower taxes, single police force, no smoking, for cantonal votes, Swiss to vote on sales tax increase
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News story, GenevaLunch, 27 September 2009.
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