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If the parliament passes something that you don't want, you can collect 50'000 signatures and challenges the decision. If you managed to collect these signature
by jokteur 4y ago
If the parliament passes something that you don't want, you can collect 50'000 signatures and challenges the decision. If you managed to collect these signatures, then the law will voted by the whole population in the next votation (we have like 3-4 votations per year).
On the other hand, if you want to propose a law, you can collect 100'000 signatures and create an "initiative". After evaluation of the feasibility of this law, it will be the subject of a nation-wide votation.
- panick21_ 4y agoIts the other way around, 100k for an initiative, 50k for a referendum.
- jokteur 4y agoMy bad, I confused the numbers. I corrected
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- lordwarnut 4y agoHow does the evaluation of the feasibility of the proposed law work?
- panick21_ 4y agoWell, generally if you propose a law like that there is a large discussion around it and those that propose it usually write a whole bunch of 'this is why its a good idea' stuff. The Bundesrat (i.e. the State Council) sometimes proposes an alternative. So they might say 'Initiative X proposes Y, but the State Council recommends a compromise where we do Z instead'. And then when you vote on it you have 3 options, rather then just 'yes' or 'no'. There is also a check of the highest court, where they basically say 'this isn't really according to international law'. However that is just a recommendation and people can ignore it when voting. Also, even if something goes threw, the actual implementation usually slightly adjust to reality on the ground somewhat.