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On Thursday, this year’s president, Micheline Calmy-Rey, said she would still go to the Rütli on August 1 even though plans to hold an official event there have been cancelled. The Rütli commission called off the official celebrations saying too many obstacles stood in the way of organising the event on the meadow, located on…
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As part of a possible reform, the method of allocating the seven portfolios is also being reviewed. Final decisions are expected after the parliamentary and cabinet elections later this year. President Micheline Calmy-Rey said the interior and the economics ministries had been mandated to examine options to bring higher education and research under one roof.…
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They won their first seat in parliament in 1967 and took the name Swiss Democrats in 1990. This was aimed at showing that the party was not just concerned with issues surrounding foreigners. Their biggest electoral success came in 1991, when the party won 3.4 per cent of the vote and five seats in the…
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In 1995 it won its first seat in the House of Representatives. In 2003 it gained a second seat with the help of another small green party, the Green Free List.
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“Excellences, Exzellenzen, ambassadors and diplomats in Switzerland”, is a photographic exhibition being shown alongside “On a Delicate Mission – Tales of Swiss Diplomacy” at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. It was conceived in 2006 by Thomas Adank and Florian Joye, who graduated from Lausanne’s University of Art and Design, and includes 65 portraits.
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Cantonal government: Cantonal parliament: Political representation in the national parliament House of Representatives: Swiss People’s PartyMax Binder-Gäumann, Toni Bortoluzzi, Hans Fehr, Hans Kaufmann, Robert Keller, Ueli Maurer, Christoph Mörgeli, Hans Rutschmann, Ernst Schibli, Ulrich Schlüer, Jürg Stahl, Bruno Zuppiger Social Democratic PartyMario Fehr, Jacqueline Fehr, Chantal Galladé, Christine Goll, Andreas Gross, Barbara Haering, Vreni Hubmann,…
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Cantonal government: Cantonal parliament: Political representation in the national parliament House of Representatives: Socialist Green AlternativeJosef Lang Christian Democratic PartyGerhard Pfister Swiss People’s PartyMarcel Scherer Senate: Peter Bieri, Swiss People’s Party and Rolf Schweiger, Radical Party
