(Swiss Info) Swiss parliamentarians have supported a plan to oblige people to show their faces during identity checks and visits to social security authorities. The proposal is aimed at countering an outright ban on wearing a burka in public.
The House of Representatives on Thursday agreed in principle to a legal reform, which falls short of a hard-line constitutional amendment.
A majority of the house, notably representatives of the Social Democratic Party as well as centrist groups, also approved additional measures to help integrate foreign women into Swiss society.
Members of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party and the left-wing Greens voted against the counter-proposal sponsored by the government.
