Key legal question
Whether the Grand Council could partially invalidate and reword the initiative without violating cantonal initiative rules or the initiators' will.
Extracted holding
Yes. Under cantonal law, partial invalidation may remove unlawful parts and the remaining text may be clarified if its sense is preserved and it can still be attributed to the initiators.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the amendment was only a drafting clarification, not an impermissible rewrite. The remaining text still reflected the initiative's core aim and was even approved by the initiative committee.