Around 70% of respondents to a survey are in favour of Switzerland joining the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, according to Demoscope. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The survey published on Saturday shows that the issue also found a majority across the board, regardless of factors such as gender, age, education, employment status, region and type of settlement. The same applied to party affiliation, with approval among voters of the right-wing Swiss People's Party being the lowest at 51%. Among centre-right Radical-Liberal Party voters 68% were in favour, 78% for the Centre Party and 92% for the left-wing Social Democratic Party, Green Party and centrist Liberal Green Party. A total of 1,007 people throughout Switzerland were interviewed for the survey in November. Demoscope conducted the survey on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). + ‘It’s never been more urgent to eliminate nuclear weapons’ The ...
