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Bourgeois lobbies largely top expenses:
Economiesuisse is the association that invested the most money in the voting campaigns in 2024. Furthermore, with around 5.7 million francs. Nevertheless, The data gathered by the Lobbywatch association also show that it was mainly the bourgeois organizations that have dismissed. Meanwhile, the cord of their purse during the campaigns.
In total. Similarly, all organizations spent 33 million francs for voting campaigns last year, Lobbywatch said on Friday, confirming information from CH Media. Therefore, Economiesu alone has paid a quarter of the total budgets of the ten most expensive campaigns.
Just for the campaign opposed to the initiative for a 13th AVS rent on March 3, Economiesuisse invested 2.4 million francs. In vain as the result shows.
Lobbywatch draws up a similar assessment for the association of landowners. It arrives in second position and notably invested around 2.6 million francs for the relaxation of the protection of bourgeois lobbies largely top expenses tenants, rejected by the people on November 24.
Pro Natura on the podium – Bourgeois lobbies largely top expenses
According to the study data. ten organizations dominate spending on the voting campaigns of 2024. They have invested more than 20 million francs. It is first of all the “economic lobby with Economiesuisse. the Swiss employers’ union and the Swiss Union of Arts and Crafts, flanked by associations of landowners, the Swiss Union of Peasants and the Swiss Association of Insurance”.
The Association for the Protection of the Pro Narua environment arrives on the podium. But the association also had to be defeated, bourgeois lobbies largely top expenses despite the “two million francs for the biodiversity initiative that was rejected”. According to Lobbywatch, this shows that money alone does not guarantee success in the ballot boxes.
Incomplete transparency system
Since the federal elections of 2023, parties and campaign committees for federal objects must publish their accounts. In the spring, finance control has drawn a mixed assessment of these new rules and sees shortcomings in the legislation. For Lobbywatch, the system is “full of flaws”.
Lobbywatch figures show total lobbies expenses for all national voting campaigns in 2024. Donations (cash and kind) are taken into account as well as budgets for the various lobbies.
In total, twelve initiatives and laws were submitted to the ballot box at the national level in 2024.
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