Green parliamentary group leader Trede considers candidacy for party presidency
Published: Sunday, Dec 31st 2023, 10:20
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Green Party parliamentary group leader Aline Trede is considering a candidacy to succeed Balthasar Glättli as leader of the party. "I am considering a candidacy," the 40-year-old Bernese National Councillor told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Sunday.
Trede confirmed a corresponding report in "SonntagsBlick". She feels a certain obligation towards her party, she said. Everyone in the party is required to make these considerations.
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 and has two children.
In addition to Trede, other names are being discussed for the party presidency. These include the failed Federal Council candidate Gerhard Andrey, Lisa Mazzone, a member of the Council of States from Geneva who was voted out of office, Sibel Arslan, a member of the National Council from Basel, and Nicolas Walder, a member of the National Council from Geneva.
The names of Greta Gysin from Ticino, Marionna Schlatter from Zurich, Florence Brenzikofer from Basel and Franziska Ryser from St. Gallen have also been floated as possible candidates. Several party representatives have also recently brought a possible co-leadership into play.
The application period ends in the first week of February. The decision on the new party leadership will be made by the Green Party delegates at their meeting on April 6, 2024.
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 in the elections. Glättli has been president since 2020.
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