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Transport Minister Leuenberger

This content was published on Dec 15, 1999 Transport and Communications Minister Moritz Leuenberger was re-elected to the cabinet by a joint session of parliament on Wednesday. He was confirmed with 154 votes in the 245-seat parliament. The vote is part of a traditional re-election procedure, which follows parliamentary elections. Those were held in October and showed the right-wing Swiss People’s Party gaining…

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Defence Minister Ogi

This content was published on Dec 15, 1999 Swiss Defence Minister Adolf Ogi was re-elected to the cabinet by a joint session of parliament on Wednesday. He was confirmed with 229 votes in the 245-seat parliament. The vote is part of a traditional re-election procedure, which follows parliamentary elections. Those were held in October and showed the right-wing Swiss People’s Party gaining the…

Economics Minister Couchepin

This content was published on Dec 15, 1999 Swiss Economics Minister Pascal Couchepin was re-elected to the cabinet by a joint session of parliament on Wednesday. He was confirmed with 124 votes in the 245-seat parliament. The vote is part of a traditional re-election procedure, which follows parliamentary elections. Those were held in October and showed the Swiss People’s Party gaining the most…

Justice Minister Metzler

This content was published on Dec 15, 1999 Justice and Police Minister Ruth Metzler was re-elected to the cabinet by a joint session of parliament on Wednesday. She was confirmed with 144 votes in the 245-seat parliament. The vote is part of a traditional re-election procedure, which follows parliamentary elections. Those were held in October and showed the right-wing Swiss People’s Party gaining…

Foreign Minister Deiss

This content was published on Dec 15, 1999 Foreign Minister Joseph Deiss was re-elected to the cabinet by a joint session of parliament on Wednesday. He was confirmed with 173 votes in the 245-seat parliament. The vote is part of a traditional re-election procedure, which follows parliamentary elections. Those were held in October and showed the right-wing Swiss People’s Party gaining the most…

What are the re-elections all about?

This content was published on Dec 15, 1999 Switzerland’s seven cabinet ministers are up for re-election by parliament on Wednesday. Normally a routine procedure, the vote is seen as a test of the “magic formula,” the traditional power-sharing agreement involving the major parties. Under the “magic formula,” which was agreed in 1959, the seven cabinet posts were divided among four parties, a move…

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Parliament re-elects cabinet ministers

This content was published on Dec 15, 1999 Switzerland’s seven cabinet ministers are being re-elected by parliament on Wednesday. Unusually, both they and the system of government are facing a challenge. A number of parliamentarians, speaking ahead of the vote, warned against “playing games” with the traditional format of power-sharing. Under the “magic formula,” which was agreed in 1959, the seven cabinet posts…

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Switzerland reaffirms importance of EFTA

This content was published on Dec 14, 1999

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Key players in the cabinet re-election

This content was published on Dec 14, 1999 President Ruth Dreifuss, populist challenger Christoph Blocher and Defence Minister Adolf Ogi will likely be the key players in Wednesday’s re-election of the seven Swiss cabinet ministers. Ruth Dreifuss: Social Democrat, Interior Minister and this year’s President. Her attempts to increase scope of welfare state, involving greater spending, have made her the target of attacks…

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Swiss government renews apology

This content was published on Dec 10, 1999 Reacting to the Bergier report, the Swiss government on Friday renewed its 1995 apology over political shortcomings during World War II, saying Switzerland did not do as much for the refugees as it could have done. The government thanked those historians, researchers and experts who had compiled the Bergier report, which it described as an…

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