Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The federal popular initiative \"against mass immigration\" (German: Eidgenössische Volksinitiative \"Gegen Masseneinwanderung\", French: Initiative populaire « Contre l'immigration de masse », Italian: Iniziativa popolare \"Contro l'immigrazione di massa\") is a Swiss federal popular initiative. It aims to limit immigration through quotas, as it had been before the bilateral treaties between Switzerland and the European Union.The proposal was launched by the national conservative Swiss People's Party and was accepted by a majority of the electorate (50.3%, a difference of 19,526 votes) and a majority of the cantons (14.5 out of 23; 12 of 20 full cantons plus five of six half cantons) on 9 February 2014. This initiative was mostly backed by rural (57.6% approvals), suburban (51.2% approvals), and isolated cities (51.3% approvals) of Switzerland as well as by a strong majority (69.2% approvals) in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, while metropolitan centers (58.5% rejection) and the French-speaking part (58.5% rejection) of Switzerland rejected it."@en }
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- Swiss_immigration_referendum,_February_2014 abstract "The federal popular initiative \"against mass immigration\" (German: Eidgenössische Volksinitiative \"Gegen Masseneinwanderung\", French: Initiative populaire « Contre l'immigration de masse », Italian: Iniziativa popolare \"Contro l'immigrazione di massa\") is a Swiss federal popular initiative. It aims to limit immigration through quotas, as it had been before the bilateral treaties between Switzerland and the European Union.The proposal was launched by the national conservative Swiss People's Party and was accepted by a majority of the electorate (50.3%, a difference of 19,526 votes) and a majority of the cantons (14.5 out of 23; 12 of 20 full cantons plus five of six half cantons) on 9 February 2014. This initiative was mostly backed by rural (57.6% approvals), suburban (51.2% approvals), and isolated cities (51.3% approvals) of Switzerland as well as by a strong majority (69.2% approvals) in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, while metropolitan centers (58.5% rejection) and the French-speaking part (58.5% rejection) of Switzerland rejected it.".