Very marked gender divide during Sunday’s vote

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Today’s highlights

TRADITION: Like every year, the Zibelemärit, Bern’s traditional onion market, opens at dawn on Monday. Tens of thousands of people are expected at the largest market in the federal capital. The onion fair dates back to 1405, the year during which the city of Bern burned almost entirely. To thank the Friborg farmers who came to help put out the fire, the Bernese authorities allowed their neighbors to come and sell their onions once a year.

France: After eleven weeks of hearings, the Mazan rape trial, in France, enters its final stretch on Monday with the prosecution’s indictments, starting with Dominique Pelicot, this septuagenarian who for ten years drugged, raped and had his son raped. marry. It’s hard to imagine that prosecutors are not seeking the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The man never hid his responsibility, calling himself a “rapist”. But what sentences will the public prosecutor seek against his 50 co-defendants? Even if most of them are prosecuted for the same acts, namely aggravated rape, the individualization of sentences is obligatory.

MIDDLE EAST: G7 foreign ministers are meeting Monday near Rome, Italy, for two days of talks focused on the Middle East conflict. They will notably talk about the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister Yoav Gallant and the head of the armed wing of Hamas Mohammed Deif. The war in Ukraine will also be on the agenda.

ENVIRONMENT: The latest round of negotiations on a global treaty against plastic pollution opens Monday in Busan, South Korea. Plastic pollution is so widespread that it has even been detected in clouds, in the deepest ocean trenches and in virtually every part of the human body including the brain and breast milk. Delegations have one week to agree on thorny issues such as capping plastic production, the possible ban on toxic chemicals or even the financing of the measures that will be provided for by the treaty.

TODAY IS…: Like every November 25, today is the international day for the elimination of violence against women. Globally, nearly one in three women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from their intimate partner, sexual violence from another partner, or both, at least once in their lifetime. life. In 2023, at least 51,100 women suffered gender-based violence which ended in their murder. This means that a woman was killed every 10 minutes worldwide. All information on the UN website. And also on the Council of Europe website.

Seen in the press

VOTES: The rejection of the extension of motorways on Sunday by the Swiss is above all linked to a divide between men and women, reveals a post-voting survey by Tamedia, relayed Monday in the Tribune de Genève, 24 Heures, the Basler Zeitung, the Berner Zeitung, the Bund and the Tages-Anzeiger. The former said “yes” at 56%, while the latter refused the object at 61%. Women also made the difference on the two revisions of tenancy law.

Concerning the new rules related to subletting, the female electorate said “no” at 56%, while men accepted it at 54%. For termination for personal reasons, 59% of women voted “no” in the ballot box at 59%, while men leaned for “yes” at 52%.

However, they lost on the fourth subject put to a vote, the reform which aims to standardize the financing of care. It was the men and their 60% “yes” who tipped the scales, while the women said “no” at 53%.

FOOD: If food recalls have increased regularly in Switzerland since 2018, except in 2022, the Federal Office of Food Safety and Veterinary Affairs (OSAV) prefers to speak of “fluctuations” rather than an increase, report La Liberté and Le Courrier Monday.

“You have to be very careful with assumptions, because the number of recalls and warnings depends on a very large number of factors and contaminations can take place throughout the food chain, from the production of raw materials to through processing and up to distribution,” agrees the Geneva cantonal chemist Patrick Edder, vice-president of the Association of cantonal chemists of Switzerland. Rather, he sees it as a sign of “an increasingly effective food security system.”

RESTORATION: Only 5% of the 1,650 Valais restaurants offer raclette, the culinary symbol of Valais, on their menu, Le Nouvelliste noted on Monday. “It seems easy to serve raclette, but it requires a lot of staff to do it correctly,” analyzes the president of Gastrovalais, André Roduit, in the newspaper.

Restaurateurs interviewed by Le Nouvelliste, for their part, mentioned the smell which risks driving away some of the customers as well as the economic realities. “We prefer to concentrate on certain types of dishes rather than mixing everything,” summarize several professionals.

SKI: Early snowfall at the end of last week attracted many winter sports enthusiasts to the mountains, the newspaper Blick wrote on Monday. Even the mini ski area of ​​Bäretswil (ZH), located at an altitude of 750 meters, was “literally stormed” by customers on Saturday, ski lift president Markus Ineichen said in the newspaper.

Larger ski areas like Davos Klosters (GR) reported an “excellent” start to the season thanks to ideal weather. The Andermatt (UR) resort announces more than 1,200 customers at Gemsstock, where two slopes were open this weekend.

Birthdays and jubilees

– 40 years ago (1984): birth of French actor Gaspard Ulliel (“A Long Engagement Sunday”, “Just the End of the World”). He died in 2022 in a skiing accident.

– 50 years ago (1974): death of British singer-songwriter Nick Drake.

– 65 years ago (1959): birth of the French politician Harlem Désir, founder of SOS Racisme, first secretary of the PS and secretary of state for European affairs under the presidency of François Hollande.

– 80 years ago (1944): birth of the Dutch writer Maarten’t Hart.

– 80 years ago (1944): the Americans liberated the Struthof concentration camp, in Alsace.

– 100 years ago (1924): birth of American jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond (real name Paul Emil Breitenfeld). Before his death on May 30, 1977, he requested that royalties from all his compositions – including his hit “Take Five” – be donated to the American Red Cross.

– 110 years ago (1914): birth of French journalist and host Léon Zitrone, one of the pioneers of French television. He was known for his commentary on princely weddings, his knowledge of horse racing and his hosting of game shows. He died in 1995.

– 110 years ago (1914): birth of Joe DiMaggio, one of the greatest American baseball players of all time. Marilyn Monroe’s former husband died in 1999.

– 850 years ago (1174): Saladin enters Damascus and unites under his authority the main regions of the old Arab empire.

Saying of the day

“At Sainte-Catherine, all wood takes root.”

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