Switzerland Votes to Keep Military Draft

Seventy-three percent of Swiss voters said no to removing the military draft, on Sunday.

All of the countries twenty-three canons voted to keep the draft.

Swiss law requires all men from eighteen to thirty-four to take part in the military.

After five months of basic training they are required to serve for nineteen days every year.

The draft keeps Switzerland's military at one hundred and fifty thousand strong.

Many Swiss believe that the draft is what holds their nation together, despite it's four official languages.