Social Democrat Alain Berset from Fribourg is Switzerland’s newest cabinet minister, following elections on Wednesday. Berset was the favoured candidate to replace party colleague and outgoing Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey. The father of three is an economist. (TSR/swissinfo.ch)
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Swiss-style consensus politics which sees government posts shared among the largest parties also took a beating, the commentators said. Despite the People’s Party’s legitimate claim to a second seat in the seven-member cabinet, parliament chose to re-elect the six incumbents, including Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf of the Conservative Democrats, which won only five per cent…
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