Vote for secular candidates!

We asked the candidates for the National Council and Council of States ten questions and used their answers to create a ranking.

Click here for the parties' answers.

Each question could be answered with yes, rather yes, rather no or no. For 10x yes there is 100%.
(Only candidates who answered our questions are listed in our ranking).

Beat Flach

Geburtsjahr
1965
District
AG
Partei
GLP
Candidate no
06a.01 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
85,0%

Tobias Hottiger

Geburtsjahr
1984
District
AG
Partei
FDP
Candidate no
03a.14 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
85,0%

Nicole Rüegger

Geburtsjahr
1981
District
AG
Partei
Piratenpartei
Candidate no
09.02 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
85,0%

Andreas Fischer Bargetzi

Geburtsjahr
1977
District
AG
Partei
Grüne
Candidate no
05a.11 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
82,5%

Maurizio Galati

Geburtsjahr
1980
District
AG
Partei
FDP
Candidate no
03e.05 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
82,5%

Anna Staub

Geburtsjahr
1997
District
AG
Partei
FDP
Candidate no
03a.16 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
82,5%

Daniel Bär

Geburtsjahr
1988
District
AG
Partei
SP
Candidate no
02a.14 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
80,0%

Patrik Keller

Geburtsjahr
1973
District
AG
Partei
Die Mitte
Candidate no
04d.08 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
80,0%

Hai Le

Geburtsjahr
1990
District
AG
Partei
JGLP
Candidate no
06b.16 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
80,0%

Hannes Tobler

Geburtsjahr
1992
District
AG
Partei
Grüne
Candidate no
05a.12 Help
Säkulare Übereinstimmung mit den Fragen
80,0%

The ten questions

  1. Pastoral care 
    Today, religious chaplains are available to hospital, home and prison inmates as well as members of the armed forces. Are you in favor of giving non-religious persons equal access to a secular-humanistic counseling service?Additional information: The provision of pastoral care in public institutions is subsidized by the state. So far, however, the federal government and the cantons exclusively mandate religious communities to provide such services.
     
  2. Assisted suicide 
    Should state-subsidized homes be required to allow assisted suicide on their premises?
     
  3. Ethics instead of religious education 
    Are you in favor of schools giving more weight to ethical issues and the living environment of non-religious children in the subject area "Ethics, Religions, Community (ERG)"? Additional information: 3. ERG is part of Curriculum 21. In many cantons, religious studies dominate and non-religious people are hardly or not at all mentioned in the teaching materials.
     
  4. Bans on high holidays
    Several cantons prohibit markets, dances, sports tournaments, and other recreational activities on "high holidays" (e.g., Pentecost Sunday). Are you in favor of lifting these religiously motivated bans and putting "high" holidays on the same legal footing as Sundays, like all others?
     
  5. Neutral dress for state employees
    Should state employees with contact to the population (police officers, teachers, judges, etc.) be obligated to appear ideologically neutral in their work and thus refrain from wearing religious clothing (cross pendants, headscarves, yarmulkes, etc.)?
     
  6. Church taxes for legal entities
    Many cantons have a church tax obligation for associations, foundations and companies. Are you in favor of abolishing the church tax for legal entities or converting it into a levy where a choice can be made among several charitable organizations?
     
  7. Federal Constitution
    Do you support a religiously neutral (i.e. without reference to God) preamble to the Federal Constitution?
     
  8. Ban on blasphemy
    Mocking religious beliefs is prohibited under criminal law in Switzerland. Since 2015, Norway, Iceland, Malta, France, Denmark and New Zealand have repealed their blasphemy articles. Should Switzerland do the same?See also frei-denken.ch/ResolutionBan on blasphemy
     
  9. Separation of church and state
    In the cantons of Neuchâtel and Geneva, state and churches are clearly separated. Religious communities there organize themselves as associations. Are you in favor of a separation of state and religious communities throughout Switzerland?
     
  10. Basic insurance
    The FVS is committed to scientific research, also in the healthcare sector: Are you in favor of removing homeopathy and other non-evidence-based therapies from the benefits catalog of basic health insurance?