Vote 7. Round 2.
Alain Berset: 126.
Pierre-Yves Maillard: 63.
Jean-François Rime: 54.
Absolute majority was 123.
Alain Berset is thus elected.
Alain Berset was born in 1972 in Fribourg and is married with three sons. He studied political science and economics at Neuchâtel University from where he received a PhD in economics in 2005.
After working as a research scientist and political advisor, he was elected to the Senate in 2003 and was Senate president in 2009.
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