Looking back – On June 2, 2002, the Vaud-Geneva merger was shipwrecked

– On June 2, 2002, the Vaud-Geneva merger was shipwrecked

Still passionate, the protagonists of twenty years ago remember. Have relations between the two cantons of Lake Geneva evolved since then?

Published today at 07:30

A few days before the ballot, on May 13, 2002, the radicals Philippe Pidoux (on the left) and Pierre Maudet defended the merger on the sets.

Paolo Battiston / Archives

Sunday June 2, 2002 was a disaster for the partisans of a supracantonal vision. Rejected by 80% by the Genevans and 77% of the Vaudois, the merger project between the two cantons was shattered against local identities. Observers thought the marriage was buried for a long time. Today, some protagonists seem to still believe in it. But others remain fiercely against it.

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