Mixed emotions

Waiting outside the assembly room. (Keystone/Alessandro della Valle) Keystone

Candidates Johann Schneider-Ammann (left) and Jean-François Rime. (Keystone/Lukas Lehmann)

Outgoing cabinet ministers Moritz Leuenberger (left) and Hans-Rudolf Merz. (Keystone/Lukas Lehmann)

Simonetta Sommaruga (right) consoles her defeated rival Jacqueline Fehr. (Keystone/Lukas Lehmann)

Simonetta Sommaruga after being elected. (EG Images/Pool/Pascal Lauener)

Social Democrats celebrate the election of Sommaruga. (Keystone/Marcel Bieri)

A disappointed Jacqueline Fehr. (Keystone/LUkas Lehmann)

Karin Keller-Sutter talks about her defeat. (Keystone/Peter Schneider)

Johann Schneider-Ammann is the new Radical in the cabinet. (Keystone/Marcel Bieri)

Swearing the oath before parliament. (Reuters/Ruben Sprich)

Cabinet election winners and losers.

This content was published on September 22, 2010 - 16:07

On September 22 Simonetta Sommaruga and Johann Schneider-Ammann replaced Moritz Leuenberger and Hans-Rudolf Merz in the Swiss cabinet.

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