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It's a Dog's Life in Switzerland for Animals: Vote Against Animal Lawyers
Just over 70 percent of voters chose the "no" option in a referendum on the issue and nearly 30 percent said "yes", according to results released after the day’s voting.
Sunday’s referendum was initiated by the Swiss Animal Protection (PSA) group and would have obliged all cantons to name a lawyer for animals during judicial proceedings.
Legal representation in cases involving mistreated animals has been compulsory since 1992 in the Zurich canton. But pet politics could have been taken to a new level if voters had extended the right to the other 25 mini-states.
The quirky lawyers-for-animals poll is the latest example of Switzerland’s "direct democracy" in which any citizen who collects 100,000 signatures from eligible voters can force a nationwide referendum on their chosen cause.
"It is not about Paris Hilton’s dog now needing a lawyer to represent its interests," said Antoine Goetschel, Switzerland’s only lawyer mandated by his canton in Zurich to handle animal welfare cases.
It is about protecting animals who are harmed by the very people who are meant to take care of them, Goetschel said ahead of the vote.
The problem is that the animal has "no rights", unlike humans who can prosecute the person who has caused harm, he said.
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