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October 12, 2024 – 6:08 p.m.
(Keystone-ATS) The UDC supports the motorway extension projects and the two objects on lease law, submitted to the people on November 24. Its delegates meeting in Aarau also supported by 248 votes to 90 the 4th text submitted to a vote: uniform financing of care.
The vote was preceded by a long discussion with more than twenty speakers. The party clearly had difficulty tuning its violins. Delegates rejected the party committee’s free voting proposal by 241 votes to 93.
After the intense debate, the delegates followed the arguments of Geneva national councilor Thomas Bläsi, supporter of “yes” to the EFAS reform.
The party leadership was leaning towards a “no” to EFAS. The UDC directors of health in the cantons of Zurich, Bern and Aargau were for it, as was the “patriarch” of the party, former federal councilor Christoph Blocher.
The EFAS reform provides that all care covered by basic health insurance, both inpatient and outpatient, be covered according to the same distribution key: 26.9% by the cantons, 73.1% by health funds. Currently, the cantons pay nothing for outpatient treatment and cover 55% of the costs of inpatient care.
If adopted by the people, the change will come into force in 2028 for the ambulatory and inpatient areas, from 2032 for long-term care.
More unanimity on other objects
The other objects submitted to federal votes hardly gave rise to debate among the UDC delegates. The assembly largely supported, by 384 votes to 1 and 3 abstentions, the extension of the highways. This object includes six projects costing a total of five billion francs, including one from French-speaking Switzerland. The Le Vengeron-Coppet-Nyon (VD) axis must in particular be widened to two three lanes over 19 km.
The delegates also followed the advice of the party leadership in the area of tenancy law. They supported the measures against abusive subletting by 361 votes and 3 abstentions as well as the simplification of lease terminations for own needs by 356 votes and one abstention.
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