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Introduction
Switzerland’s ‘Save our Swiss Gold’ referendum was convincingly rejected yesterday by the Swiss electorate following an aggressive anti-gold campaign in recent weeks that had been closely watched both in Switzerland and abroad.
Unusually, it involved the Swiss National Bank (SNB) very actively, and ultimately successfully, trying to convince the electorate along with the main political parties to return a ‘no’ vote.
The initiative had proposed a series of measures which would have obliged the SNB to hold a minimum of 20% of its reserves in gold, prevent the SNB from selling any gold, and force the SNB to repatriate that portion of its gold reserves that are currently stored abroad and to store gold in Switzerland.
The referendum campaign had evolved out of a popular initiative which had initially collected over 100,000 signatures between 2011 and 2013. Under Swiss law, this allowed the motion to go forward as an official referendum, even though the Swiss government, Swiss parliament and Swiss National Bank had all come out in opposition to the Gold Initiative.
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