58 percent of Swiss voters favor buying new fighter jets

A poll conducted by Swiss broadcaster SRF showed that 58 percent of the respondents are in favor of the country buying new fighter jets.

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Peter Gronemann from Switzerland [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons


The Swiss will vote in a referendum next month to approve a $6.6 billion project to buy new fighters.

The margin of error for the poll is 2.9 percentage points.

Back in 2014, voters rejected a plan to buy 22 Gripen fighters.

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