Center has defended its seats in the Council of States
Published: Sunday, Nov 12th 2023, 16:00
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For the time being, the Center Party is the only party to have defended the seats it won in the Council of States in the last elections. The last six seats in the Council of States will be allocated next Sunday.
40 of 46 seats in the Council of States have now been allocated. It is already clear that the Center Party has successfully defended the 13 seats it won in the elections four years ago. It even has a chance of increasing its representation in the Council of States: In the canton of Aargau and the canton of Ticino, it will be running in the second round of voting in a week's time.
So far, the FDP has secured eleven seats in the new Council of States compared to twelve in 2019. It is still competing in Ticino and could win another seat there. The SP only has seven out of nine seats in the bag. It is still trying to win additional seats in the cantons of Solothurn and Schaffhausen.
The SVP has defended five out of six seats so far. However, the party is still running in Ticino, Aargau, the canton of Solothurn and the canton of Zurich in a week's time, in some cases with a good chance of success. The seat of the independent Thomas Minder, who was a member of the SVP parliamentary group and will contest the second round of voting in the canton of Schaffhausen, is also not yet in the bag.
So far, the Greens have defended three out of five seats from 2019. They are running again in Ticino and will be able to increase their representation to a maximum of four seats in the small chamber. The Mouvement citoyens genevois (MCG) will be the only new party to enter the Council of States for the time being.
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