People say initiative: Giacometti initiative will not materialize

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The collection period for the initiative “People and cantons decide on federal laws that have been declared urgent!” expired Tuesday. or Giacometti Initiative for short. The initiators reported the receipt of 78,125 signatures on their website. It would have taken 100,000 to make it happen.

Neither parties nor associations supported the collection of signatures, said Marco Giacometti of the initiative committee at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency. The number of signatures collected is therefore considerable. “The emergency law must be handled with care,” said Giacometti.

Specifically, the committee wanted it to be enshrined in the constitution that the people and the cantons could vote on laws declared urgent by parliament no later than 100 days after they were adopted by parliament. If the law had not been approved at the ballot box within this period, it should have lapsed.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, parliament has passed numerous urgent laws, including the Covid-19 law, which has been the subject of three referenda. However, the majority supported three times the Bundesrat’s course. Emergency law was also used in the emergency merger of major bank CS with UBS.

Zaccaria Giacometti (1893 to 1970) comes from Stampa GR and, according to the Swiss Historical Encyclopedia (HLS), was a professor of public law at the University of Zurich. Accordingly, he criticized the proxy decisions and practice of the proxy during World War II as unconstitutional because the federal constitution does not provide for an emergency law.

(SDA)

Source:Blick