Swiss Government

Switzerland is a federal republic of decentralization consisting of 20 states and 6 half states. These can be divided into communes. Legislative power is the responsibility of the Congress of the dual parliament. The House of Representatives consists of 200 representatives elected by voters for a term of four years. The other 46 representatives are elected directly by the state. Each person sends two representatives, but their election method and terms of office vary according to each state's law.

Since 1959, the Swiss government is an alliance of four major political parties, each party has several seats and roughly reflects the proportion of voters and representatives in the Congress. From 1959 to 2003, the classical distribution of two CVP / PDC, two SPS / PSS, two FDP / PRD and one SVP / UDC was called "magic expression." After the election of the 2015 Congressional election, seven seats of the Congress were assigned as follows. Direct democracy and federalism are characteristics of the Swiss political system. Swiss citizens are bound by three jurisdictions, the municipal administration, the state, and the federal government. The Swiss Constitution of 1848 and 1999 established direct democracy (sometimes called quasi direct or representative direct democracy as it was aided by a more general system of representative democracy)

Pure form of direct democracy exists only in Switzerland Appenzell Inner Roden and Glarus. The Swiss Federation is a semi - direct democracy (a representative democracy with strong direct democratic means). The essence of direct democracy in Switzerland is fundamentally supplemented by the structure of its federal government (also known as Subsidiaritätsprinzip in German). Most Western European countries have representatives. Switzerland is a rare example of a country with direct democratic means (city, state and federal state). Citizens have more power than representative democracy. At any political level, citizens can propose a People 's Initiative or request any referendum on any law voted by federal, state, and / or municipal council.

Since 1998, the Swiss government has been working on electronic voting systems. The Swiss voting system is a direct democratic practice and any citizen can object to any law. The Swiss electronic balloting system has not traveled the country yet. In 2015, Switzerland announced that electronic voting system will be used by Switzerland living abroad, approximately 90,000 citizens of Geneva and Neuchatel. There was also a security problem, and we did not enter the country by electronic ballot. A Swiss writer said, "Swiss authorities have chosen to gradually and carefully manage electronic voting, electronic voting is still in testing phase and the number of voters who can access the electronic balloting system is limited" I mentioned.