It’s a very interesting proposal. it would likely mean that probably no-one who sits on, say, the committee on health can be on the board of a health insurer or a hospital.
It might also mean – depending on the interpretation – that no union employee can be on the committee drafting work laws, or no member of WWF’s board can be on the environmental committee.
That would be a pretty radical change of how Swiss politics works. So far, it is quite explicitely *wanted* by most parties and politicians that our part-time politicians are also engaged in those organizations. It’s not a bad idea per se to get rid of this system – but I’m not sure the organizers have an idea of what that would mean.
The sixth part is odd to me. It suggests that only the administration may work on drafting laws. But parliament has a pretty big role int his too (unfortunately, they usually rely on the help of lobbyists). So that might be an even weirder change.
In the end, no one on the initiative committee seems to have any public profile and I’d be surprised if they get the signatures together.
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Here’s the text: https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/vi/vis571t.html
It’s a very interesting proposal. it would likely mean that probably no-one who sits on, say, the committee on health can be on the board of a health insurer or a hospital.
It might also mean – depending on the interpretation – that no union employee can be on the committee drafting work laws, or no member of WWF’s board can be on the environmental committee.
That would be a pretty radical change of how Swiss politics works. So far, it is quite explicitely *wanted* by most parties and politicians that our part-time politicians are also engaged in those organizations. It’s not a bad idea per se to get rid of this system – but I’m not sure the organizers have an idea of what that would mean.
The sixth part is odd to me. It suggests that only the administration may work on drafting laws. But parliament has a pretty big role int his too (unfortunately, they usually rely on the help of lobbyists). So that might be an even weirder change.
In the end, no one on the initiative committee seems to have any public profile and I’d be surprised if they get the signatures together.
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