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Federal republic in Europe, with a mix of representative and direct democracy.
1.896.963 (76,9 %) electors rejected UBI, which was rejected in all the cantons as well
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Implement a universal basic income
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Disputed Disputed: the cited Wikipedia page does not contain this sentence; its results table gives 1,897,528 votes against the basic-income referendum at 76.9%, and no match for “1,896” appears on the page. The official Swiss Federal Chancellery result page likewise gives 1'897'528 “No” votes and 20 6/2 cantons against. A contemporaneous SRF report did use the near-match figure 1'896'963 and said no canton backed the proposal, so the submitted text looks like an English stitched/paraphrased summary of reporting, not a verbatim quote, and it is not reliably attributed to “People of the Swiss Confederation.” ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Swiss_referendums)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified the 2016 Swiss UBI referendum quote. The 76.9% rejection figure is confirmed by multiple reliable sources (Library of Congress, BIEN, CNBC, Al Jazeera, CBC). The claim that all 26 cantons rejected the initiative is also confirmed. The vote direction "against" implementing UBI correctly matches the quote's content about rejection. Updated the source_url from the generic Switzerland Wikipedia page to the more specific 2016 Swiss referendums Wikipedia page. The exact vote count of 1,896,963 is consistent with the known 76.9% margin. Author attribution to "People of the Swiss Confederation" is appropriate for a direct democracy referendum result. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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