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Best result: Tanja Soland from SP.
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In the canton of Basel-Stadt, the majority of the red-green government is on the verge of the first vote. The president of the green district fell behind in ninth place, far behind a bourgeois candidate for the PLD.
After the first vote, only three of the five members of the government who ran again and a new candidate exceeded the absolute majority of 24,716 votes and, therefore, have already been confirmed: the 45-year-old financial director of the SP, Tanja Soland (SP), was clear with 33,175 votes the first place.
Behind Soland, there were two more previous ones: 45-year-old health director Lukas Engelberger (CVP) was elected with 30,625 votes, 41-year-old director of education Conradin Cramer (LDP) with 29,348 votes.
One of the new candidates was also above the absolute majority: National Councilor Beat Jans (SP), 56, obtained 28,751 votes in the first ballot. Stephanie Eymann (LDP), a 41-year-old career switch and current head of the Baselbieter traffic police, narrowly missed out with 24,637 votes. His result was only 79 votes below the absolute majority.
Liberal Stephanie Eymann was chosen meanwhile, in the end she missed the absolute finest.
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Eymann’s good performance in the first vote was described as the big surprise in the electoral forum on Sunday. This also far exceeded his own expectations, he said. She is very happy with the result. Eymann himself was not present at the electoral forum on Sunday. Due to a Covid 19 illness from her parents, she had to go into quarantine.
The new candidate, Grand Councilor Kaspar Sutter (SP), 45, did not reach an absolute majority with 23,086 votes. As in the last two elections, the former Director of Justice and Security Baschi Dürr (FDP), 43, has to go to the second ballot with 22,149 votes.
The 57-year-old district president, Elisabeth Ackermann (Greens), was frankly punished with 20,206 votes in the first ballot and finished in ninth place in the new seven-member government. Ackermann was even surpassed by 36-year-old Grand Councilor Esther Keller (GLP), who received 21,852 votes.
Elisabeth Ackermann of the Greens is threatened with being expelled from office.
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56-year-old attorney Stefan Suter, who entered the race as a career changer for the SVP, garnered 12,769 votes. 52-year-old veterinarian and Riehen city councilor Christine Kaufmann came in 11th with 11,256 votes.
At 47 percent, the turnout was significantly higher than in 2016 when it was 44.2 percent. Christoph Brutschin and Hans-Peter Wessels, two prominent and veteran representatives of the SP, did not stand for re-election.
Ackermann was “very disappointed”
In the separate battle for the regional council, Stephanie Eymann achieved 16,463 votes and thus was also ahead of Elisabeth Ackermann, who received 15,054 votes; both clearly lost the absolute majority of 23,038 votes. Esther Keller got 9,562 votes.
District President Ackermann was “very disappointed” by her poor performance. “The fact that I had to make an unpopular decision shortly before the elections and a campaign was unleashed against me obviously hurt me,” he said, referring to his harsh management decisions at the Basel Historical Museum.
“Majority change is in the air”
The president of the FDP, Luca Urgese, was confident: “There is a majority change in the air,” he said. It turns out that the population is not satisfied with the work of the red-green government. The FDP government adviser, Baschi Dürr, was satisfied with his seventh place. He had expected to have to run again on the second ballot, he said.
SP government adviser Tanja Soland was delighted with her top result, which she described as a personal success, but also as a confirmation of the red-green financial policy.
The majority of the red-green government did not want to give up: “It was also our voters who gave a signal against Elisabeth Ackermann in the first vote,” he said. In the second vote, however, he will try to show the consequences of a change in the majority, including in sound financial policy and social housing subsidies, Soland said.
In the second vote on November 29, Kaspar Sutter (SP), Stephanie Eymann (LDP), Baschi Dürr (FDP) and Elisabeth Ackermann (GB) will fight for a majority on the governing council. LPG candidate Esther Keller also secured her participation in Sunday’s second ballot, while the SVP was still open here. (sda)
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