Question juridique clé
Whether the filing of 18 December 2012 had to be treated as a cantonal constitutional request or as an electoral-rights appeal requiring prior recourse to the Conseil d'Etat
Solution extraite
The filing concerned a decision affecting political rights and had to follow the ordinary remedies under the electoral-rights legislation; abstract constitutional review was not open.
Motifs extraits
The contested decree did not contain rules of law and therefore could not be attacked by abstract review under the cantonal jurisdictional act; the abrogation of the earlier decree and the annulment of the referendum were concrete decisions reviewable only through the political-rights remedies.