Key legal question
Whether the state-council decree allocating parliamentary seats among districts and half-districts was challengeable by voting-rights complaint without exhausting cantonal remedies.
Extracted holding
The complaint was admissible because there were serious doubts about the availability of a cantonal appeal against this preparatory act.
Extracted reasoning
Although the decree prepared the upcoming parliamentary election and was therefore reviewable under federal voting-rights complaint doctrine, cantonal law might construe the notion of preparatory act more narrowly; exhaustion of cantonal remedies was therefore not required.