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Following an emotional two-day debate, the House of Representatives has approved a government counterproposal to the “Reparation Initiative” – a people’s initiative which would recognise and compensate victims of Swiss foster care and child labour policies up until 1981. The counterproposal now moves on to the Senate. Whereas the initiative calls for the creation of a CHF500 million ($514 million) reparation fund, the government counterproposal would create a fund of CHF300 million to be distributed to an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 victims, with each person receiving a maximum of CHF25,000. The counterproposal was seen as the better alternative by a majority of members of the House, with 143 voting in favour and 26 against, with 13 abstentions. The initiator of the Reparation Initiative, multimillionaire Guido Fluri, said he was in principle willing to withdraw his initiative, depending on the results of the vote in the House and the Senate. He told swissinfo: “I couldn’t a

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