Key legal question
Whether the political-rights complaint against the Grand Council's financial decree was admissible before the Federal Supreme Court without first appealing to the cantonal Appellationsgericht.
Extracted holding
The complaint was inadmissible because the cantonal remedies were not exhausted; an appeal to the Appellationsgericht was available under the Basel-Stadt Constitution.
Extracted reasoning
The new cantonal constitutional provisions on voting-rights complaints applied directly and clearly allowed review by the Appellationsgericht. Since the appellants should have used that cantonal remedy, Art. 88 BGG barred federal review.