{"id":922302,"date":"2026-07-25T01:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/swiss-voters-decide-on-proposal-to-cap-population-at-10-million\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:12:15","slug":"swiss-voters-decide-on-proposal-to-cap-population-at-10-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/swiss-voters-decide-on-proposal-to-cap-population-at-10-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss voters decide on proposal to cap population at 10 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva: Voters in Switzerland are casting ballots on a proposal to cap the country\u2019s population at 10 million, in a closely watched referendum driven by the right-wing Swiss People\u2019s Party.The initiative, described as the \u201csustainability initiative,\u201d aims to limit population growth by requiring the government to take measures to ensure the population does not exceed 10 million by 2050.Supporters argue that rapid demographic growth has placed pressure on infrastructure&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emirates247.com\/world\/swiss-voters-decide-on-proposal-to-cap-population-at-10-million\/2585\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva: Voters in Switzerland are casting ballots on a proposal to cap the country\u2019s population at 10 million, in a closely watched referendum driven by the right-wing Swiss People\u2019s Party.The initiative, described as the \u201csustainability initiative,\u201d aims to limit population growth by requiring the government to take measures to ensure the population does not exceed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":922303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,26485,2296],"tags":[11889,6879],"class_list":["post-922302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","category-swiss","category-voters","tag-swiss","tag-voters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}