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The red-green-center alliance also has a majority in the city parliament. SVP and FDP lose, Green Liberals win significantly. Women succeed.
The Berne City Council election was primarily a women’s election. Of the 80 members of the city’s parliament, 55 are women and 25 are men. Overall, the proportion of women increased from 54 percent to 68.8 percent.
In the FDP parliamentary group, for example, Tom Berger remains the only man alongside six women after Thomas Hofstetter and Oliver Berger have been eliminated. As in the last legislature, the ten women elected to the Green Alliance are women. For the PS there are now 5 men and 16 women in parliament.
It is different with the SVP: the seven elected are men. In LPG, five of the nine seats are occupied by men.
The green wave continues
When it comes to the political balance of power, the Red-Green Center Alliance (RGM) can defend its majority in the city parliament: as four years ago, there are 43 seats in the 80-member municipal council. However, the weights within the government alliance have shifted slightly.
The SP loses one seat, but remains by far the most powerful force in the city’s parliament. Along with the Juso, it has 23 seats. The green wave in the national elections only continued slightly in the municipal elections. The Green Alliance (GB) and the Junge Alternative (JA) affiliated with it in the parliamentary group each win one seat and together they now have a joint parliamentary group of 13.
RGM’s third partner, Mayor Alec von Graffenried’s Green Free List (GFL), on the other hand, has only 7 seats after losing seats. The GFL continues to tip the balance in the RGM alliance. If it breaks with the majority of the government in parliament, it can help the bourgeois and center parties to obtain a majority. However, the GFL has taken on this role, which has been played often in the last four years, fewer, as it has not only been re-represented on the city council since 2016, but is also provided by the mayor.
The green wave, on the other hand, is also evident in the political center, where the green liberals and their young party have increased from 3 to 11 seats. The BDP, on the other hand, continues its cancer path with a loss of seats in just 2 city council seats. The CVP, which persists with 2 seats, could not increase either.
The bitter defeat of the bourgeois parties in the municipal elections is also evident in the city hall: the FDP loses one seat and, together with the young freisinness, has eight seats. So he is just ahead of his partner SVP, who has 7 seats after 2 losses.
In addition to the bourgeoisie, there is also a left opposition to the left-wing government alliance RGM. Here the Alternative Left increases from 1 to 3 seats, the PDA and the Green Alternative Party maintain one seat each, so veteran Luzius Theiler will leave the council.
