Federal Act on Political Rights

¹The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall sub­mit the pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive to a pop­u­lar vote with­in ten months of the fi­nal vote there­on in the Fed­er­al As­sembly, but at the latest ten months after ex­piry of the stat­utory peri­od al­lowed for Par­lia­ment to con­sider the pop­u­lar vote.

²In the event of a con­di­tion­al with­draw­al in fa­vour of an in­dir­ect counter-pro­pos­al, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall sub­mit the pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive to the vote of the People and the can­tons with­in ten months of its val­id­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 15 para­graph 1 of the res­ult of the pop­u­lar vote re­ject­ing the in­dir­ect counter-pro­pos­al.

³If a pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive in the form of a gen­er­al pro­pos­al is ap­proved, the draft amend­ment to the Con­sti­tu­tion shall be sub­mit­ted to a vote of the People and the can­tons with­in ten months of the fi­nal vote in the Fed­er­al As­sembly.

^3bisThe time lim­its in para­graphs 1-3 shall be ex­ten­ded by six months if they be­gin less than ten months but more than three months be­fore the next gen­er­al elec­tion to the Na­tion­al Coun­cil.²

⁴The pro­ced­ure for deal­ing with a pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive to be fol­lowed by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and the Fed­er­al As­sembly and the dead­lines that must be ob­served are gov­erned by the pro­vi­sions of the Par­lia­ment Act of 13 Decem­ber 2002³.