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For the second vote at the Rhine Knee, the cards have been shuffled. A total of five candidates from the SP, FDP, LDP, GLP and Alianza Verde parties represent the three seats that are still open.
Financial Director Tanja Soland (SP) had already been elected in the first vote on October 25 with a superior result. They were followed by Health Director Lukas Engelberger (CVP), Education Director Conradin Cramer (LDP) and the new member of the current National Councilor Beat Jans (SP).
Ackermann pulled out of career
The president of the government, Elisabeth Ackermann (Greens), who has held the position since 2017, had withdrawn from the race in ninth position after her poor performance, which is why the SP and the Green Alliance had to present a substitute candidate in a emergency procedure. The red-green majority, which has existed since 2005, will now be defended by 56-year-old left-wing politician Heidi Mück of green alliance partner BastA!
With her on the red-green ticket is SP’s Grand Councilor, Kaspar Sutter. He came sixth on the first vote, putting himself in a good starting position.
For the bourgeoisie, the newcomer Stephanie Eymann (PLD) enters the race as a candidate for combat: she lost the absolute majority in the first vote by only 79 votes.
Will Dürr do it?
Finally, the Acting Director of Justice and Security Baschi Dürr (FDP), who came to seventh place in the first vote, and the GLP Councilor Esther Keller, remained in the race. In the first ballot he was just 297 votes behind Dürr.
The bourgeois parties hope to regain the majority they lost 15 years ago in the Basel government. At the same time, however, they are also threatened with the election of the FDP government adviser, Dürr, who has held the post since 2013.
Three scenarios are possible
The second vote could lead to three scenarios: if the bourgeois duo with Eymann and Dürr manages the elections, the bourgeois parties FDP, LDP and CVP would regain their majority in the government, which they lost in 2005. If Sutter and Mück are successful, the majority red-green will remain. If the GLP Keller candidate were elected, there would be a political deadlock in the executive, similar to that in parliament.
Stephanie Eymann and Esther Keller, who placed first and third in the first vote, are running again for regional council. But here too the cards for the second vote have been shuffled. Because not the newly established red-green candidate, Heidi Mück, is running for this position, but the newly elected SP government adviser, Beat Jans, already elected.
The well-known environmental politician wants to rebuild the contents of the department immediately upon reaching the presidium. In particular, he wants to reassign the Office of Environment and Energy, which is currently part of the Department of Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs, to the Presidential Department. This with the aim of making climate protection a top priority and positioning Basel-Stadt as a pioneering canton in climate protection. (SDA)
