A petition by the "Stop-F35 Alliance" urging the Swiss government to immediately halt the purchase of new US fighter jets has gathered 42,500 signatures. Campaigners want parliament, which is due to vote on similar requests, to take a first step in this direction. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "It's not too late to make the right decision," wrote the alliance, which includes the left-wing Social Democratic Party and the Green Party, and groups such as Campax and the Group for a Switzerland without an Army (GSoA), on Tuesday. They denounce "the dependence on the United States that we have contracted with the purchase of this jet; it is and remains indecent". Following the election of US President Donald Trump, it has become even more obvious how devastating a dependence on the US for security policy is, according to the Stop-F35 Alliance, which claims to represent a majority of the population. In a representative poll published by the Tages Anzeiger in ...
