Should all citizens be required to perform military or community service?

AI-generated summary, admin reviewed: This initiative proposed requiring every citizen, including women, to perform service benefiting society or the environment. Service could be completed in the military, civil protection or another legally recognised role, for example in disaster preparedness, care services or food security. People who did not serve would generally pay a replacement charge, and Parliament could later extend some form of service to non-citizens. Supporters argued that universal service would strengthen social responsibility, national resilience and equality. Opponents warned that it would roughly double the number of people required to serve, impose major costs on government and employers and risk displacing ordinary paid work. Swiss voters rejected the initiative.
Seed source: Swissvotes federal popular vote dataset.
Swissvotes page: https://swissvotes.ch/vote/680.00
Official result data: https://ogd-static.voteinfo-app.ch/v1/ogd/sd-t-17-02-20251130-eidgAbstimmung.json
Vote date: 2025-11-30
Original Swissvotes English title: Service Citoyen Initiative
Original German title: Volksinitiative «Für eine engagierte Schweiz (Service-citoyen-Initiative)»
Original French title: Initiative populaire « Pour une suisse qui s'engage (initiative service citoyen) »