Should local governments make final citizenship decisions without court appeals?

AI-generated summary, admin reviewed: This initiative proposed allowing local governments to decide which municipal body would rule on citizenship applications. Those decisions would have been final and could not have been appealed in court. Supporters argued that granting citizenship was a political decision that should remain under local democratic control. Opponents warned that removing the right of appeal could allow arbitrary or discriminatory decisions and weaken legal protections for applicants. Swiss voters rejected the initiative.

Seed source: Swissvotes federal popular vote dataset.
Swissvotes page: https://swissvotes.ch/vote/532.00
Official result data: https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/20080601/det532.html
Vote date: 2008-06-01
Original Swissvotes English title: Initiative «for democratic naturalisation decisions»
Original German title: Initiative «Für demokratische Einbürgerungen»
Swissvotes short-description title: Volk will über Einbürgerungen nicht mehr rein politisch entscheiden
Original French title: Initiative «Pour des naturalisations démocratiques»
Année Politique Suisse description: https://anneepolitique.swiss/prozesse/2248
Department information (German): https://web.archive.org/web/20080530212920/http://www.ejpd.admin.ch/ejpd/de/home/aktuell/abstimmungen/einbuergerungen.html
BFS result map (German): https://mapexplorer.bfs.admin.ch/?obs=politic&lang=de#c=indicator&i=vp20080601.prop_oui_532_0
BFS result map (French): https://mapexplorer.bfs.admin.ch/?obs=politic&lang=fr#c=indicator&i=vp20080601.prop_oui_532_0
Official chronology (German): https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/vi/vis320.html
Official chronology (French): https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/f/pore/vi/vis320.html