The party is the second one to moot the possibility of a new religion article in the Swiss constitution.
"We should think about whether we want to recognize Islam as an official religion so that we don’t leave the training and financing of imams to foreign and perhaps fundamental circles,” Christian Levrat told the Sonntags Zeitung.
"We must ask the question about whether there can be a Swiss Islam.”
It is now up to the cantons to reflect on this, because the relation between state and religion comes under their remit, according to Switzerland’s federal system.
"Perhaps in the end we will have this religion article,” said Levrat.
At the end of July, Gerhard Pfister, the head of the centrist Christian Democratic Party, also mooted the possibility of a religion article in the constitution. It could give guidance on which values are applicable for all, he said.
Source: Swiss Info