Liechtenstein

Popular initiative for a law

1,000 signatures from Voting citizens of Liechtenstein (Landesbürger), each signature certified by the signer's commune within 42 days

• Or three communes, by matching resolutions of their municipal assemblies, instead of the signatures
• A proposal that would burden the State with a new or lasting expense must come with a proposal to cover it
• Registered first with the Government (Anmeldung), which has it announced officially; the six weeks for the signatures run from that announcement (Volksrechtegesetz, LR 161, Art. 70 paras. 1 b, 2)
• The Government checks it against the Constitution and the treaties; the Landtag takes it up at its next sitting and may declare it void, which can be appealed to the State Court (Volksrechtegesetz Art. 70b)

The Landtag must take the proposal up at its next sitting (Art. 64 para. 2). A drafted initiative the Landtag does not accept goes to a popular vote (Volksrechtegesetz, LR 161, Art. 82).

After a vote has rejected a request on the same subject, a new one is allowed only after two years (Volksrechtegesetz Art. 70 para. 3)

Source: Art. 64 paras. 1-3; Volksrechtegesetz Art. 70, 70b, Constitution of the Principality of Liechtenstein (LR 101)

Popular initiative for the Constitution

1,500 signatures from Voting citizens of Liechtenstein (Landesbürger), each signature certified by the signer's commune within 42 days

• Or four communes, by matching resolutions of their municipal assemblies, instead of the signatures
• Registered first with the Government (Anmeldung), which has it announced officially; the six weeks for the signatures run from that announcement (Volksrechtegesetz, LR 161, Art. 70 paras. 1 b, 2)
• The Government checks it against the Constitution and the treaties; the Landtag takes it up at its next sitting and may declare it void, which can be appealed to the State Court (Volksrechtegesetz Art. 70b)

The Landtag must take the proposal up at its next sitting (Art. 64 para. 2, by para. 4).

After a vote has rejected a request on the same subject, a new one is allowed only after two years (Volksrechtegesetz Art. 70 para. 3)

Source: Art. 64 para. 4; Volksrechtegesetz Art. 70, 70b, Constitution of the Principality of Liechtenstein (LR 101)

Referendum against a law the Landtag has passed

1,000 signatures from Voting citizens of Liechtenstein (Landesbürger) within 30 days

• Or three communes, by matching resolutions of their municipal assemblies
• The 30 days run from the official announcement of the Landtag's decision in the official gazettes, counted from the first publication, the day itself not included (Volksrechtegesetz, LR 161, Art. 70 para. 1 a)

The law goes to a popular vote and takes effect only if the voters accept it (the absolute majority of valid votes cast in the whole country decides).

A law the Landtag has declared urgent, and a financial decision below a one-off new expense of CHF 500,000 or a yearly new expense of CHF 250,000, are not subject to it

Source: Art. 66 paras. 1, 4, Constitution of the Principality of Liechtenstein (LR 101)

Referendum against a change to the Constitution

1,500 signatures from Voting citizens of Liechtenstein (Landesbürger) within 30 days

• Or four communes, by matching resolutions of their municipal assemblies
• The 30 days run from the official announcement of the Landtag's decision in the official gazettes, counted from the first publication, the day itself not included (Volksrechtegesetz, LR 161, Art. 70 para. 1 a)

The change goes to a popular vote and takes effect only if the voters accept it.

Source: Art. 66 para. 2, Constitution of the Principality of Liechtenstein (LR 101)