Swiss army reservists deployed to support public hospitals in the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic in Bière, western Switzerland, in 2020. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Geneva, Switzerland AP —

Swiss voters on Sunday decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams or other forms, as all men must do already.

Official results, with counting still ongoing in some areas after a referendum, showed that more than half of Switzerland’s cantons, or states, had rejected the “citizen service initiative” by wide margins. That meant it was defeated, because proposals need a majority of both voters and cantons to pass.

Voters also heavily rejected a separate proposal to impose a new national tax on individual donations or

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