What disqualifies a proposed title of an initiative?

Switzerland

Switzerland

Answer
  • Inconsistency with proposed content
  • Commercial statement
  • Incomprehensibility
Source

FEDERAL ACT ONPOLITICAL RIGHTS

(Adopted 1976; last amended 2009)

http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/161_1/index.html

Title 5: ThePopular Initiative

Art. 69 Preliminaryexamination

(2) Where the title of an initiative is misleading, or if it containscommercial advertising or personal publicity or gives rise to confusion, itshall be amended by the Federal Chancellery.

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