Court of Auditors (Geneva)
The Court of Auditors of the Canton of Geneva is an authority responsible for financial control. The Court of Auditors was created in a cantonal vote in 2005. The members of the Court of Auditors are elected by the people of Geneva who are entitled to vote and vote for a term of 6 years and may be re-elected. The Geneva Court of Auditors is the second such authority in a Swiss canton to be completely independent of the administration , following the one established in Vaud in 2003 .
Legal basis
The audit office was created by means of a new version of Article 141 of the cantonal constitution of 1847 . The Federal Council recommended that the Federal Assembly guarantee the new article, with the exception of Paragraph 3, as this provided that only citizens of “secular class” could be elected. This would have excluded clergymen, i.e. pastors , rabbis , imams or those of other religions from this office, which is contrary to the Federal Constitution , the ECHR and the UN Pact II as a violation of religious freedom . The Federal Assembly adopted this view and refused to guarantee Article 141 paragraph 3. In the new Geneva Constitution of 2012 , where Articles 128-131 are dedicated to the Court of Auditors, the paragraph in question no longer exists.
Web links
- Chapter 4: Court of Auditors in the Geneva cantonal constitution
Individual evidence
- ^ An independent court of auditors for Geneva. In: NZZ.ch. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
- ^ Message on the guarantee of the amended Constitution of the Canton of Geneva. (pdf) October 18, 2006, accessed on August 27, 2018 .
- ^ Federal decree on guaranteeing the amended constitution of the canton of Geneva. (pdf) March 15, 2007, accessed on August 27, 2018 .
- ^ Constitution of the Republic and the Canton of Geneva. October 14, 2012, accessed on July 15, 2020 (with changes that have occurred since then; unofficial German translation of the French original).