Federal Act
on Political Rights
(PRA)1

of 17 December 1976 (Status as of 23 October 2022)

1 Inserted by No I of the FA of 26 Sept. 2014 (National Council elections), in force since 1 Nov. 2015 (AS 2015 543; BBl 2013 9217).


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Art. 76 Direct counter-proposal 152153

1 Where 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.

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

3 Where 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.

152Amended by No I of the O of 8 Oct. 1999, in force since 1 March 2000 (AS 2000 411; BBl 1999 7922).

153 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 25 Sept. 2009 (Con­di­tion­al With­draw­al of a Pop­u­lar Ini­ti­at­ive), in force since 1 Feb. 2010 (AS 2010 271; BBl 200935913609).

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