LAURENT GILLIERON
In the judgment passed on May 28 and sent on June 2, which the Keystone-SDA news agency received on Friday, it said that the complaint was “obviously inadmissible”. A substantive examination is therefore not necessary.
Nine former Ticino officials had called for the vote on the anti-terrorism law to be waived or the result to be deleted. After their unsuccessful complaint to the government council, they went to the federal court. They argued that the law was deceiving the electorate.
The authorities disseminated misinformation in the voting book and thereby violated the right to freedom of opinion, according to the complaint. According to the former Ticino public prosecutor Paulo Bernasconi, the claim that the police can usually only intervene after a crime has already been committed is particularly shocking.
That is a blatant lie, because the Criminal Code has been punishing preparatory acts for a criminal or terrorist act since 2014. In addition, according to the complainants, the Federal Council pretends in the voting booklet that the law does not violate fundamental rights and the federal constitution. Sixty law professors would have refuted that.
Voting complaints against the anti-terror law have already been submitted in the cantons of Geneva, Zurich, Lucerne, Obwalden, Bern and Thurgau. The complaints of more than 500 citizens demand the waiver of the vote and the withdrawal of the bill. The complaints are orchestrated by the Pirate Party, which, together with left-wing parties, held the referendum against the bill.