The municipal parliament in Chur, Switzerland (canton of Graubünden) has rejected a proposal from the social democratic party to introduce alien voting rights. All parties apart from the social democrats voted against the proposal. Non-citizens should get voting rights only once they naturalize, they insisted.

In the canton of Graubünden, since 2003, municipalities have the option to introduce such rights if they want to. Only 18 out of 112 municipalities have introduced them so far.

See more at SRF website (in German) and consult our country profile pages for details of current and past citizenship and electoral rights legislation in Switzerland.