Talk:Politics of Switzerland

message: See the discussion at the FDP page. For the time being I suggest we wait for the answer of the FDP and then make definitive choices. In the note I will add Freethinking Democratic Party as one of the translations used. Gangulf 18:53, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: I'm not clear on whether Switzerland's famous "neutrality" also includes economic protectionism (the other half of the perjorative "isolationism". A section on Swiss economic policies would be informative. --Tokalon73 12:30, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Economic policies

message: Perhaps a clarification of who constitutes "the people" is in order.  1.5 million Swiss residents are not citizens even though they were born in the country and thus have no citizenship rights.  DHN 20:49, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: this is also misleading. The 1.5 Million include all resident foreigners, including those that arrived last week, and including children. The number of people born in, but not citizens of Switzerland is much smaller. Anybody who has grown up in Switzerland and without a criminal record may receive citizenship almost certainly upon reaching 18, if they actively apply for it. Many are deterred because they would lose their original citizenship, and thus remain non-Swiss voluntarily. This should be discussed on Demographics of Switzerland. 83.77.217.223 14:42, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: "The people"?

message: It was suggested that Voting in Switzerland be merged into the Switzerland main article but I think that it might be better to merge it with this article instead.  Any thoughtsHdstubbs 02:53, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The idea is good, but looking at the current length of Voting in Switzerland, plus what is missing for now, I think creating a stub here with a redirect to the "main" article would be better than a merge. Schutz 12:25, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Agreed.  I will take down the merger tag.  Hdstubbs 18:28, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge

message: "In practice, the people have the last word in every change of law if an interest group disagrees with."
I deleted above quote because it makes no sense.  Hdstubbs 02:59, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion

message: Numerous countries have an article on referendum.  Given the Swiss use of them, I would have thought there would be one for Swiss.  Something to think about anyway.  Referendums in Switzerland. --Midnighttonight 08:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No overriding article on Swiss referendum 

message: As of September 20, this entry is unclear:
:This "magic formula" has also been criticised in the 1960s for excluding leftist opposition parties, in the 1980s for excluding the emerging Green party, and after the 1999 election particularly by the People's Party, which had by then grown from the fourth largest to the largest party. In the elections of 2003 the People's Party (formerly the smallest of the 4 parties represented in the Federal Council) gained a plurality of seats in the National Council and received (effective January 1, 2004) a second seat in the Federal Council, reducing the share of the Christian Democratic party to 1 seat.
It is not clear by what measure the People's party in 1999 is the largest party, and useful to know: is it by votes in the election, seats won in the National Council, or the Council of States, or both houses combined, or some other measure? Yellowdesk 19:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Election and the 1999 Peoples party, lack of clarity 

message: >Switzerland features a system of government not seen at the national level on any other place on Earth: direct democracy
I've read the paragraph and it doesn't seem to me that Switzerland is unique in the world, i.e. in Italy people can play a role in the legislative process about in the same way:
propose a law with 50000 signatures, ask for a referendum against an existing law (with no time limits) and repel a change to the constitution with a referendum.
You should explain why a Swiss situation is different or remove this statement.
Tcp-ip 21:47, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Are the referendum results in Italy binding? Many countries feature some kind of referendum where the results serves merely as something like a recommendation. In Switzerland, it's absolutely binding; if a law is rejected by popular vote, the government can't change this - the law is gone. Also, the Swiss can't propose a law at the national level, but amendments to the constitution, which is a level above mere laws, and the decision of popular votes again is absolutely binding. Can you give sources regarding the role of direct democracy in Italy? This is new to me and I think it's very interesting. Anyway, combined with the unique collective head of state, the Swiss Federal Council, the Swiss system as a whole certainly is not seen in Italy or anywhere else. Gestumblindi (talk) 02:31, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  yes, the result is binding. About sources, you can find something on Wikipedia itself (here). If you can read italian,  here is the complete law about direct democracy. Tcp-ip (talk) 21:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Really unseen? 

message: The government section of the "Outline of Switzerland" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.
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:how is this important, and why do you insist on spamming random article talkpages with updates on your "outline" project? Perhaps the conclusion you should draw is that it is an extremely bad idea to use a "speeded up process" to create hundreds of "articles" and then leave the to rot because nobody feels called to look after them. Instead you attempt to drain workforce from the body of Wikipedians who are actually writing articles to clean up the huge mess your "speeded up process" has left behind. --dab (𒁳) 09:52, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Important notice 

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message: For your information: Richard W. Rahn, "Switzerland, a country that works", The Washington Times, Monday 11 August 2014.
128.178.197.229 (talk) 06:27, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article 

message: I'm not sure which category Switzerland belongs to. Currently it's classified as a directorial republic, though I still see parliamentary republic mentioned in the main Switzerland article. Being directorial doesn't really answer this question, because all it means is that executive power is legally shared by a group. It still leaves the question of whether that executive authority is derived from the legislature or is independent from it.
It looks like the Federal Council is elected by the legislature but cannot be dismissed or impeached by the legislature? So wouldn't the executive be independent in this case? Abstractematics (talk) 07:24, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parliamentary or Presidential System? 

message: Switzerland is a directorial republic. Officially the head of state role is not the "President of the Confederation" but the Federal Council it self. The president is a merely ceromnial role what turn every year among it's member and don't have more power whan the others members of the council DR5996 (talk) 20:50, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switzerland is a directorial republic 

message: The redirect Government of Switzerland has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.   Jay 💬 05:05, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Government of Switzerland]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]