Beat Jans is the new SP Federal Councillor and successor to Alain Berset
Published: Wednesday, Dec 13th 2023, 12:30
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Beat Jans is the new Federal Councillor. The United Federal Assembly elected the Social Democrat from the canton of Basel-Stadt as the successor to SP Federal Councillor Alain Berset with 134 out of 245 valid votes in the third ballot.
Beat Jans is only the third Federal Councillor from Basel-Stadt. He has been a fixture in local and national politics for over two decades. He received the most votes in both the 2015 and 2019 National Council elections, but is no longer a member of the federal parliament.
In 2020, he made it into the Basel city government as a newcomer in the first round of voting. Jans' trademarks are his enthusiasm, eloquence and closeness to the people.
Jans grew up in Riehen BS as the child of a working-class family in a block of flats. He completed an apprenticeship as a farmer and trained as an agricultural engineer before studying environmental sciences at ETH Zurich.
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