Aline Trede does not want to become president of the Greens
Published: Saturday, Jan 13th 2024, 16:50
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The Bernese National Councillor and parliamentary group leader of the Greens, Aline Trede, does not want to become party president. At the end of December, she was still considering running to succeed Balthasar Glättli as leader of the Swiss Green Party.
"I will not be running for party president," she told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Saturday. On December 31, she said she was still considering a candidacy. She feels a certain obligation to her party. This was first reported by the SonntagsBlick newspaper.
The environmental scientist and owner of a campaign and communications office was a member of the National Council from 2013 to 2015 and has been back in the upper chamber since 2018. She has led the parliamentary group since 2020. She was Vice-President of the party from 2008 to 2012. Trede was one of the founders of Young Greens Switzerland in 2004. She lives in Bern.
Candidates for the party presidency include Lisa Mazzone, who was voted out of office as a member of the Council of States in Geneva but has not yet committed herself. Basel National Councillor Sibel Arslan could imagine a co-presidency with Mazzone, as she told Keystone-SDA. And Aargau National Councillor and former Council President Irène Kälin does not want to categorically take herself out of the running.
The application period for the Green Party presidency ends on February 4. The decision on the new party leadership will be made by the delegates at their meeting on April 6.
Green Party President Balthasar Glättli is stepping down in the spring. He is thus drawing the consequences of his party's electoral defeat in the national elections in October. The Greens lost 3.4 percentage points of voters. Glättli has been president since 2020.
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