Bourgeois majority in Schaffhausen parliament firmly in the saddle
Published: Wednesday, Aug 21st 2024, 09:30
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The people of Schaffhausen will elect a new cantonal parliament on September 22. The center-right factions have held the majority in the 60-member cantonal council for years, and a major change in the majority situation seems rather unlikely.
Even though the SVP lost one seat in the elections four years ago, it remained the dominant party: with 33.38% of the vote, it was able to secure 20 seats. Together with the Federal Democratic Union (2 seats), it also forms the largest parliamentary group in the Council.
And together with the eight FDP seats and the two centrist seats, which together form a parliamentary group, the clear middle-class majority is easily achieved.
The SP parliamentary group dominates the left-green camp with 16 seats. The GLP-EPP parliamentary group has seven seats and the Green parliamentary group has five seats. Together they therefore have 28 seats.
Flattened green wave
These majorities are unlikely to change fundamentally after the elections. It is true that the Greens and the GLP won the parliamentary elections in Schaffhausen four years ago. However, the green wave has flattened out somewhat in the meantime. The Greens have recently lost ground in various cantons.
And finally, last Sunday's elections to the Schaffhausen cantonal council also went in favor of the conservatives, who were able to increase their majority in the executive. The FDP took the second seat from the SP. In the new legislature, the FDP will be represented in the government by Marcel Montanari (new) and Martin Kessler (previous), the SVP by the previous members Cornelia Stamm Hurter and Dino Tamagni and the SP by Patrick Strasser.
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