Federal Act on Political Rights

¹Where the Fed­er­al As­sembly de­cides to sub­mit a counter-pro­pos­al, three ques­tions are put to the voters on the same bal­lot pa­per. Each per­son who is eli­gible to vote may state, without re­ser­va­tion:

a.

wheth­er they prefer the pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive to the law cur­rently ap­plic­able;

b.

wheth­er they prefer the counter-pro­pos­al to the law cur­rently ap­plic­able;

c.

which of the two pro­pos­als should be­come law where both the People and the can­tons prefer both pro­pos­als to the law cur­rently ap­plic­able.

²The ab­so­lute ma­jor­ity shall be es­tab­lished sep­ar­ately for each ques­tion. Ques­tions that have not been answered shall be dis­reg­arded.

³Where both the pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive and the counter-pro­pos­al are ac­cep­ted, the res­ult of the third ques­tion shall be de­cis­ive. The pro­pos­al that se­cures a high­er num­ber of pop­u­lar votes and a high­er num­ber of can­ton­al votes shall be­come law.