Initiative for Public Participation in Urgent Laws Fails
Published: Tuesday, Jul 25th 2023, 10:41
Actualizado el: Viernes, Oct 13th 2023, 14:12
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The Giacometti Initiative, which aimed to give the Swiss people and cantons the right to vote on laws passed by the Parliament in urgent situations, has failed to reach the necessary 100,000 signatures. Despite the lack of support from political parties and organisations, the initiative managed to collect 78,125 signatures. The initiative was named after the Swiss constitutional lawyer Zaccaria Giacometti and would have required the people and cantons to vote on laws passed by the Parliament in urgent situations within 100 days of their passing. If the law was not accepted by the people, it would have been rendered void. This initiative was proposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, during which the Parliament passed several urgent laws, including the Covid-19 law, which was put to referendum three times and was accepted by the majority each time. The same was done for the merger of the CS and UBS banks. Giacometti was a professor of public law at the University of Zurich and criticised the use of emergency powers during World War II as unconstitutional, as the Swiss Constitution did not provide for such powers.
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