So bekämpft ein seriöses Land die Überbevölkerung. Zum Vergleich: Die Schweiz hat 220 Einwohner pro km². Malta hat 1.700 Einwohner pro km².

How does the Malta economy work? Don’t compare Apples to Oranges

Our economic model solely depends on population growth.

More people = more flats = higher GDP.

No population growth = flats being build will remain empty = some will go bankrupt as they had to go into debt to build = recession

You reap what you sow

In all seriousness, what will this vote actually do if it succeeds? Will they deport newborns born after the 10 million limit?

This also requires the census to be *absolutely perfect* in its count which is for practical reasons impossible, and also assumes there will never be any illegal immigrants.

The irony in your post knows no bounds. You truly confirm how clueless you are. And you had the gall to attack me a number of times when it comes to politics and the very valid theory of legitimation.

It’s not merely a case of „serious country“, and Switzerland is not merely a representative democracy.

That’s why things like this can happen. And this is not a proposed bill in Parliament, but a public initiative.

>Switzerland’s system of direct democracy means all major decisions are taken via the ballot box. Campaigners simply have to gather 100,000 signatures to ensure a nationwide vote.

And the vote has to happen first, before talking about how „serious countries“ tackle stuff.

If we had a better form of democracy, then perhaps those almost HALF of the population could finally gather enough signatures and start initiatives on which they would vote directly.

But alas we have people like you, who continue „lecturing“ people like me and doing the devil’s work by urging everyone to legitimize our incredibly flawed representative system (which keeps showing how flawed it is even after the election, as the „corrective mechanisms“ have recently shown).

And this when everyone knows that voting for the third parties won’t do anything, for a plethora of reasons, starting from funding (PL at more than a million; Momentum at a couple of thousands) to reach; from pre-electoral shenanigans to post-electoral mechanisms, from limited true and fair public say during the elections, to even less post-election.

And then somehow you want to criticize the country precisely by comparing with another which actually has a much fairer system in place.

I’m sure you’ll retort with some inane argument as you have done so far, while clearly not understanding the very basic political concepts at work.

But even if we had 0 immigration malta has always been very densely populated

Agree Malta has a real population and housing problem we are clowns for basing our economy in increasing it. But comparing national density to Malta is meaningless. Malta is effectively a city-state, so it should be benchmarked against cities like Barcelona, Amsterdam or Singapore, not whole countries.

And the serious country rejected the proposal.
https://timesofmalta.com/article/swiss-vote-divisive-antiimmigration-proposal.1129916

And they voted against it. Yes, we need tu do something about over population, but this isn’t the way