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Calmy-Rey overwhelmingly re-elected

The foreign minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey, has been re-elected into government with 206 votes. Calmy-Rey joined the government only a year ago.

Calmy-Rey scored the second best result in the cabinet elections behind her colleague from the Social Democratic Party, Moritz Leuenberger.

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