(Swiss Info) Voters have endorsed a series of measures allowing police to crack down on militant extremists and apply preventive detention methods, giving Switzerland one of the strictest anti-terrorism legislations in Europe.
Final results show the law winning nearly 57% of the vote in Sunday’s nationwide ballot.
Opponents didn’t succeed in showing the alleged weaknesses of the law according to political scientist Urs Bieri of the GfS Bern research institute. “Voters seem to have expressed their confidence in the government,” he told SRF public radio.
In a first reaction, opponents of the law, including human rights groups, have warned that it undermines the principle of the rule of law. They pledged to closely follow the implementation of the amended regulations.
