183,000 signatures in 2 weeks New Responsible Business Initiative is on course for record numbers

The new Responsible Business Initiative is on a record-breaking course. Within two weeks, the initiators have collected 183,000 signatures.

Keystone-SDA

21.01.2025, 11:05

SDA

The committee behind the new corporate responsibility initiative believes it is on course for a record. According to its own information, it has collected over 183,000 signatures within two weeks. These now have to be authenticated.

Over 10,000 committed people from all parts of the country have collected signatures for the new Responsible Business Initiative, according to the press release issued on Tuesday. Volunteers had organized over 1,000 stand campaigns for this purpose.

Second initiative

"I have never seen a cause that so many people have campaigned for in their free time," said Stefan Müller-Altermatt, a member of the Solothurn National Council. He is a member of the initiative committee. The fact that 183,661 signatures were collected in just 14 days is a sensation.

The Responsible Business Initiative demands that Swiss companies and their subsidiaries at home and abroad must respect human rights and environmental protection. When it was launched at the beginning of the year, the committee had set itself the target of collecting the 100,000 signatures required for the initiative to come to fruition within a month.

This is now the second Responsible Business Initiative. The first one was passed by a popular majority in 2020, but not by a majority of the cantons. The coalition responsible for the new initiative repeatedly criticized the legal provisions that came into force as inadequate.