Greens lodge complaint about vote on women’s retirement age

The Green Party is filing a complaint against the 2022 vote to raise the retirement age for women, after the news this week that federal financial forecasts for the pension system were miscalculated. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Greens plan to submit a complaint in one canton in French-speaking Switzerland (Geneva) and one in German-speaking Switzerland (Zurich), the party’s Secretary General Rahel Estermann told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Wednesday. The complaint is being submitted by private individuals on behalf of the Greens. The party is prepared to take it all the way to the Federal Supreme Court. Estermann thus confirmed corresponding information published earlier in Tamedia newspapers. The party’s final decision was made on Wednesday, Estermann said. The Greens believe there is a good chance that the appeal will be successful. + Democratic slip-up: more about the pension miscalcuations On Tuesday, it emerged that the Federal Social ...