In Switzerland an initiative to
ban gas guzzling cars has completed it's first stage of collecting 150'000 signatures.
Here is a picture. Next, I believe, it will go to parliament where it the initiative could be stopped. However, I believe this has never happened. Then within a year there will be a national referendum on the topic.
Initiatives are very popular in Switzerland and every 3 to 4 months there is some kind of vote. This vote may be an the level of your local council (Gemeinde) or at the level of the canton (a canton is like a state) or at the national level, typically you have 1 to 2 votes at each level. That equates to about 20 different items to vote on per year. Some interesting ones are the
banning of fighter jets in tourist areas (imagine this in the US), a smoking ban in public places in the canton of Zürich (yet to be voted on), whether my local council (Kriens) can go ahead build a car park on a grassy area, weather my canton can go ahead and fund a billion for a train tunnel to improve train services,... the list goes on.
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