Last year the EU passed a law requiring its members to drawuprules for CCS. In theory these should be in place within two years, although such deadlines often pass unmet.
And the army has chosen both a Muslim Brother and a prominent Christian judge to sit on an eight-man legal panel that has been asked to drawup new, fairer rules swiftly for early elections.
The law is not expected to take effect until 2014, since the Mexican Federal Congress will need to drawup secondary legislation to implement the new rules.
But as the Swiss vote suggests, European governments may find it hard to resist populist calls for a tit-for-tat approach unless they take a leaf from America's book and a drawup a simple, transparent set of legal rules for all faiths.