ZURICH - Campaigners for the initiative titled 200 francs is enough put posters in Zurich Hauptbahnhof and Bern Wankdorf this week, arguing that the household levy for public broadcasting should be capped and cut. SRG managers said a yes would force cuts to regional news, sports rights and language-region production.
The SVP is the loudest parliamentary backer. Other bourgeois parties are split between sympathy for lower fees and fear of a thinner German-language service in the valleys.
A fee people can name
Unlike the climate fund, the licence fee appears on a bill. That is why this item may travel farther than its legal complexity suggests. The later stakes report is here.