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Authorities are meanwhile not in a position to give precise details on the reopening of the cantonal road to Saas-Fee.

Each envelope consists of a brochure explaining what each (national, cantonal, or communal) issue is all about, as well as the government’s position on each topic.

The referendum itself is in response to the cantonal parliament of Basel, which decided to fund ESC 2025 with a loan of 34,9 million francs.

Cantonal authorities held a rare Sunday news conference to announce new measures, including the closure of restaurants, bars, cinemas, gyms and other entertainment sites.

FOPH said that cantonal and federal authorities will identify other people who may have been in contact with the patient in order to quarantine and monitor them for the next 14 days.

In a nationwide referendum in 1994, about 55% of voters endorsed the original anti-racism law against opposition by a small far-right party together with a conservative group fighting for cantonal autonomy.

On 29 September 2015 the Federal Court ruled that the mail-order retailing of non-prescription drugs as practised by Zur Rose and approved by the Cantonal Pharmacist was prohibited by law.

Mr Schneider-Ammann will be accompanied on his trip to Nigeria by a fifteen-strong delegation of Swiss business representatives, as well as by a number of members of parliament and cantonal councillors.

Switzerland needs 2,000 more police and a national police reserve, says Pierre Maudet, who heads the conference of cantonal police departments.

All of them have their own cantonal government, which is under the law of the Federation as a whole.

Constitutional amendments, whether introduced by initiative or in parliament, must be accepted by a double majority of the national popular vote and the cantonal popular votes.

Donat Cadruvi, at the time the president of the cantonal government, claimed that the Lia Rumantscha was trying to force the issue.

In 1831 the cantonal parliament withdrew all political power from the eleven city guilds.

In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.

Official status in Switzerland and language politics In Switzerland, official language use is governed by the "territorial principle": Cantonal law determines which of the four national languages enjoys official status in which part of the territory.

Romansh speaking German speaking Italian speaking further On the cantonal level, Romansh is an official language only in the trilingual canton of Graubünden, where the municipalities in turn are free to specify their own official languages.

Since the cantonal constitution explicitly named Sursilvan and Engadinese as the language of ballots, a referendum was launched to amend the relevant article.

That is a majority of 23 cantonal votes, because the result of the popular vote in the six traditional half-cantons each counts as half the vote of one of the other cantons.

The cantonal codes of procedure, which remain in force until 2011, generally contain similar provisions.

The cantonal parliament passed the measure in August 2003, even advancing the deadline to 2005.