Foreigners' right to vote: the PS's endless logic

Le Regard Libre N° 76 - Antoine Bernhard

Fifty years after the arrival of women's suffrage in Switzerland, the Socialists want to extend it across the board to foreigners resident in the country. In January, the party tabled a parliamentary intervention and launched an online petition to promote the «right to vote for all». With this demagogic operation, the SP is revealing its revolutionary nature and demonstrating that it is often the enemy of the people. Commentary.

First and foremost, we must answer a crucial question: What ideological dynamic underlies the Swiss Socialists’ proposal to extend voting rights to foreigners? One observation helps us understand this: this institutional change, viewed as a step forward for democracy, is seen by its advocates as the necessary historical continuation of the extension of voting rights to women in 1971