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

Kilian Brogli

Geburtsjahr
1977
District
AG
Liste
PPAG – Piratenpartei
Candidate no
10.03 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
100,0%

Michael Derrer

Geburtsjahr
1967
District
AG
Liste
glp – Grünliberale Partei
Candidate no
06a.12 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
100,0%

Sandra Meier

Geburtsjahr
1986
District
AG
Liste
BDP3 – Bürgerlich-Demokratische Partei: die Dritte
Candidate no
07c.04 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
100,0%

Lukas Wopmann

Geburtsjahr
1984
District
AG
Liste
BDP – Bürgerlich-Demokratische Partei
Candidate no
07a.03 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
100,0%

Connie Fauver

Geburtsjahr
1971
District
AG
Liste
Grüne Partei
Candidate no
05a.08 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
97,5%

Vincent Hohler

Geburtsjahr
1992
District
AG
Liste
DU - Die Unabhängigen
Candidate no
15.02 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
97,5%

Chris Schmid

Geburtsjahr
1986
District
AG
Liste
jglp - Junge Grünliberale
Candidate no
06b.09 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
97,5%

Dominik Marcel Peter

Geburtsjahr
1986
District
AG
Liste
glp – Grünliberale Partei
Candidate no
06a.16 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
95,0%

Sandro Covo

Geburtsjahr
1997
District
AG
Liste
SP und Gewerkschaften – JUSO (Jungsozialist* innen)
Candidate no
02b.02 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
92,5%

Florian Hunziker

Geburtsjahr
1995
District
AG
Liste
SP und Gewerkschaften – JUSO (Jungsozialist* innen)
Candidate no
02b.12 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
92,5%

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?