Rahel Freiburghaus
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Rahel Freiburghaus
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Assistant Professor @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland │ Swiss & Comparative Politics, Democracy, Political Institutions, Federalism, (Intergovernmental) Lobbying │ Also @leewas.bsky.social @chplusplus.bsky.social │Views my own
Lecker!

Und mit einer veganen Züpfe aus dem Rüedu, dem 24/7-Quartierladen: ruedu.ch

Getreu dem Motto „Früsch vo geschter“ wird köstliches Brot vom Vortag für einen Zwöifränkler verkauft (aka gerettet).

Auf dass dieses Angebot so viele Menschen aus Bern und Sessions-Menschen in Bern kennen!
December 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Many in Switzerland felt… embarrassed as business leaders showed up at the Oval Office with gold bars and Rolex watches. Days later, another Swiss (Infantino) handing Trump a peace prize, with a laudatio people now hope they misheard
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Thank you! FIFA indeed has a certain track record, I did my final highschool thesis (Maturaarbeit) on the 1978 World Championship during Argentina‘s military junta
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Many in Switzerland felt… embarrassed as business leaders showed up at the Oval Office with gold bars and Rolex watches. Days later, another Swiss (Infantino) handing Trump a peace prize, with a laudatio people now hope they misheard
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
December 3, 2025 at 7:04 AM
This might be also important to keep in mind bsky.app/profile/rfrb...
In 2021, the youth wing of the Swiss Social Democrats pushed an initiative to tax capital income 1.5× than labour income. Today, we voted on their prop of an inheritance tax.

The voting patterns look almost identical.

Switzerland’s big debates about wealth are running on deep, stable currents
Wenn eine Abstimmung eine Art Neuauflage einer früheren Abstimmung ist:

Korrelation des Ja-Anteils bei der 99%-Initiative (2021) & der heutigen «Zukunftsinitiative» für eine Erbschaftssteuer

Grafik: @leewas.bsky.social
cc @lucasleemann.bsky.social @mariostauble.bsky.social @rfrbrghs.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
On wealth taxes and whether the Budget was a missed opportunity, the recent referendum failure in Switzerland on a tax that only the very wealthy would pay shows that what might seem on the face of it very popular turns out not always to be so.

www.ft.com/content/f03f...
Swiss voters reject 50% inheritance tax for the super-rich
Overwhelming majority opposed wealth tax in contentious referendum
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Interessanter Aufschlag, merci dafür! Fand auch die teils geradezu gegensätzlichen Abstimmungsergebnisse gestern spannend: ein Kanton so, ein anderer so& parallel die Bestrebungen auf Bundesebene (Annahme einer Motion, wonach Menschen mit Behinderung abstimmen sollendürfen)

bsky.app/profile/rfrb...
In Switzerland, around 16k people with disabilities who are under full guardianship remain disenfranchised nation-wide, a clear violation of the UN Convention.

At the cantonal level, Geneva’s voters approved re-enfranchising these citizens in 2020. Today, voters in Vaud went firmly the other way
🗳️🇨🇭 VOTATIONS
Vaud prend le contre-pied de Genève en refusant catégoriquement le droit de vote aux handicapés
➡️ https://l.letemps.ch/yZC
December 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Also today voters in the canton of Zug approved re-enfranchising citizens with disabilities.

Something long-known in Switzerland resurfaced: a country that granted 🚺 the vote astonishingly late (in parts, not until 1991) also moves slowly when it comes to extending voting rights at the ballot box
November 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM