The Swiss People's Party (SVP) - which is the largest in the ruling coalition of four parties - launched the anti-immigration initiative last year, which could be on the ballot as soon as 2026.
Switzerland will cap its population to ten million as part of an immigration crackdown under plans put forward by the hard-right People's Party.
After 2050, the initiative demands that the Federal Council sets a new immigration limit based on the excess of births. She said at a Bloomberg event: 'When people talk about immigration or migration, what they mean is asylum seekers. They don't really mean the qualified staff in hospitals, the doctors we need. We couldn't work without them.'
More than every fourth resident in Switzerland is a foreigner, which is one of the highest rates in Europe. The SVP comfortably topped the Swiss general elections in October 2023 and holds two of the seven seats in the power-sharing government, but it is often at odds with its three coalition partners.
SVP took 29 per cent of the vote in elections to the lower house of parliament in Switzerland in October 2023.
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