The two texts dealt with more or less the same subject: the ever-increasing financial burden that health premiums place on the wallets of Zurich households. The cantonal project, supported by the left and the Center, aimed at an increase in cantonal contributions to the individual reduction of premiums, thus increasing it from 92% of what the Confederation pays to 100%. Or around 50 million additional francs. The municipal project hoped to release 60 million francs annually for people whose income does not exceed 60,000 francs per year (100,000 for married or civil partnership couples). Objects united in the theme but not in the result: the cantonal proposal was rejected by 51.07%, the municipal one was fairly well behind (56.42%).
At both cantonal and municipal level, one of the main arguments of the right was the poor targeting of this reduction in bonuses. Tobias Weidmann, president of the SVP group at the Zurich Grand Council, agrees: “The situation is very tense, because many people today depend on the reduction in premiums.”
