Give secular candidates your vote!

We asked the candidates for the National Council and the Council of States ten questions and ranked them on the basis of their answers.

Be sure to include the most secular candidates on your ballot papers!

Every question could be answered with yes, mostly yes, mostly no or no. For 10x yes you get 100%.

Our ranking

Hannes Tobler

Geburtsjahr
1992
District
AG
Liste
Junge Grüne
Candidate no
05b.10 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
80,0%

Florian Vock

Geburtsjahr
1990
District
AG
Liste
SP und Gewerkschaften
Candidate no
02a.05 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
77,5%

Markus Liebi

Geburtsjahr
1994
District
AG
Liste
JSVP – Junge Schweizerische Volkspartei
Candidate no
01b.02 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
75,0%

André Dünner

Geburtsjahr
1957
District
AG
Liste
PPAG – Piratenpartei
Candidate no
10.08 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
72,5%

Andreas Kluth

Geburtsjahr
1967
District
AG
Liste
LOVB – Lösungs-Orientierte Volks-Bewegung
Candidate no
11.07 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
70,0%

Mario Pasinelli

Geburtsjahr
1972
District
AG
Liste
FW AG – Freie Wähler Aargau
Candidate no
12.02 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
60,0%

Raphael Zimmerli

Geburtsjahr
1993
District
AG
Liste
CVPAZ.Miteinander.Für Aarau und Zofingen
Candidate no
04e.04 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
57,5%

Harry Lütolf

Geburtsjahr
1970
District
AG
Liste
CVP.Miteinander.Für den Aargau
Candidate no
04a.13 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
47,5%

Willy Wenger

Geburtsjahr
1957
District
AG
Liste
TEAM65+ – Die Aargauer Seniorenliste
Candidate no
14.07 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
32,5%

Franco Martelletti

Geburtsjahr
1970
District
AG
Liste
BDP3 – Bürgerlich-Demokratische Partei: die Dritte
Candidate no
07c.11 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
20,0%

The ten questions:

  1. The state outsources pastoral care of hospital, home and prison inmates and members of the army to churches. Are you in favour of extending these state-supported care services to include non-religious, secular alternatives?

  2. Should public and subsidised homes and hospitals in Switzerland be obliged to allow suicide assistance on their premises?
    Background: The Salvation Army, which operates a state-subsidized nursing home in Neuchâtel, had appealed against a cantonal law requiring publicly recognized non-profit institutions to respect a patient's wish for accompanied suicide in their premises. The Federal Court dismissed the complaint in 2016.

  3. Are you in favour of homosexual couples being allowed to marry and their marriage being equal to that of heterosexual couples in all rights and duties?

  4. Are you in favour of opening the registered partnership to heterosexual couples as a "lean" marriage light?
    France and Luxembourg offer such a "lean" alternative to marriage with the PACS, the pacte civil de solidarité.

  5. The mockery of religious beliefs is forbidden under the Swiss penal code. Since 2015, Norway, Iceland, Malta, France, Denmark and New Zealand have abolished such blasphemy articles. Should Switzerland follow suit? (see free-thought.ch/ResolutionRepealTheBlasphemyArticle)

  6. Should state employees in direct contact with the population (police officers, teachers, judges, etc.) be obliged to dress in an ideologically neutral manner (no cross, headscarf, kippa, etc.)?

  7. The Swiss syllabus (Lehrplan 21) includes the subject area "Ethics, Religions, Community". In most cantons, however, religion is clearly the dominant topic. Do you support the idea that schools should place more emphasis on general ethical concerns rather than on providing selective information on religions?

  8. Many cantons impose church taxes on associations and companies, even though these are usually denominationally neutral. Are you in favour of abolishing church taxes for legal entities or transforming them into a levy that can be paid out to one of several non-profit organisations?

  9. In the cantons of Neuchâtel and Geneva, state and churches are clearly separated. Religious communities organise themselves as associations. Are you in favour of a nation-wide separation of state and religious communities?

  10. Several cantons prohibit dancing, sporting events or markets on so-called «high holidays» (e.g. Whitsunday). Are you in favour of lifting these religiously motivated bans and equating the «high» holidays with Sundays like all other holidays?