From Ausserrhoden to Zurich. Six cantonal elections are scheduled for spring.
Zurich, Geneva, Lucerne, Baselland, Ticino and Appenzell Ausserrhoden: in these cantons, voters will re-elect their governments and parliaments in 2023.
It will be a sixfold mood test for the national elections in autumn 2023: Cantonal elections are due next spring in canton six.
The cantons will kick things off on February 12th Zurich and Basel country. In Switzerland’s most populous canton, almost 1,700 candidates are fighting for 180 seats in the Zurich cantonal parliament. 43 percent of them are women, slightly more than in the last election in 2019.
When the seven-member Zurich government council is reappointed, all incumbent government councilors will stand for re-election. There are other candidates from SP, FDP, GLP and AL.
The electorate of the canton appoints on the same day Basel country the government and district administrator. There are five seats in the government. With the exception of Health and Economics Director Thomas Weber (SVP), all previous candidates are up for re-election. A total of 618 people are running for the 90 district seats – 245 women and 373 men.
In Appenzell Outer Rhodes the cantonal elections are due on March 12th. The five-member government council, the governor and the supreme court are elected. The FDP has to defend one of its two seats with a new face because Finance Director Paul Signer is no longer running. The remaining four previous ones want to stay.
Civilians in Geneva disagree
The sovereign then decides in three cantons 2nd of April its representations in government and parliament. As the only canton in French-speaking Switzerland to be revised in the coming year Geneva that day his authority new. So far, 20 candidates on 11 lists have announced their intention to run for a seat in the government, the Council of State.
Because there was no agreement on an alliance on the part of the bourgeoisie, there is now a record-breaking number of lists that this class of voters would like to convince themselves of. This will make it difficult for the right to achieve its goal of breaking the left-wing majority in government.
Women in the Lucerne and Ticino government?
In the canton Lucerne The days of the all-bourgeois male body in the five-member government on April 2 could be a thing of the past. Everything indicates that after the new elections, another party and two women will be announced to the committee.
The election of Central Cantonal Councilor and Mayor Michaela Tschuor as the successor to Guido Graf, who is no longer running, is considered certain given the strength of the Central Party. The non-party government councilor Marcel Schwerzmann also renounced. This frees up space for a fourth party. A left seat occupied by a woman is considered likely.
In the canton Ticino Finally, on April 2, 2023, those entitled to vote will elect a new five-member government and a new parliament consisting of 90 cantonal councillors. Unlike in most cantons, the Ticino government is elected by proportional representation and has been an all-male body since 2015.
The only resigning is SP government councilor Manuele Bertoli. The SP Ticino Councilor of States Marina Carobbio and Juso member Yannick Demaria have nominated Bertoli’s successor.
After the resignation of SP veteran Paul Rechsteiner takes place in the canton St. Gallen a by-election for the Council of States also took place on March 12. It is already clear that a woman will be elected. With Barbara Gysi (SP), Esther Friedli (SVP), Susanne Vincenz-Stauffacher (FDP) and Franziska Ryser (Greens), four national councilors are applying. However, it IS expected that there WILL be a second ballot. This is scheduled for April 30th.
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