Criminal aliens to be kicked out?
The quest for signatures to require a popular vote was achieved by the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2074 (SPP). The SPP collected 210,770 signatures from Swiss citizens, far more than the 100,000 legally binding to obtain a national vote.
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3454 authorities are now bound to organize a national vote about the proposed new law.
The signature lists were officially deposited February 15 at the Federal Chancellery in the capital city of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1987.
The SPP’s initiative asks for a vote on a new law making it mandatory for the state to deport any http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1767 convicted of rape, murder, burglary, drug trafficking or social assistance abuse.
Living in Switzerland would be forbidden for the criminal alien for up to 10 years, 20 years in cases of repeated offenses.Commenting on his party’s success, the SPP president Ueli Maurer said the winds had changed directions in Switzerland. The latest polls show indeed that a large majority of Swiss citizens favor criminal alien expulsions.