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JSD director Baschi Dürr should take the seat for the FDP. (Image: Keystone)
Basel
Baschi Dürr is running again for the governing council on the second ballot. His party also supports PLD candidate Stephanie Eymann.
The Basel FDP nominated its government adviser Baschi Dürr for the second round of executive voting at his party’s congress in Riehen on Monday. Dürr clearly lost an absolute majority in the first vote on Sunday.
Dürr, the 43-year-old Justice and Security Director, got 22,149 votes in the first ballot. That was enough for seventh place, but not for the absolute majority of 24,716 votes.
As in 2012 and 2016, Dürr will have to fight for a government seat that has not yet been allocated in the second vote on 29 November. With him, SP candidate Kaspar Sutter, current district president Elisabeth Ackermann (Green Alliance), GLP candidate Esther Keller and the surprisingly successful middle-class newcomer Stephanie Eymann (LDP) will participate in the race for three seats. remaining.
Civil change is in the air
Regarding the second vote, the party’s president, Luca Urgese, said that the change of course of the majority of the red-green government was in the air. Dürr also spoke of a good starting position to regain the bourgeois majority with Stephanie Eymann. It is about maintaining the order of the candidates from the first vote, he said.
Party delegates finally nominated Dürr and PLD candidate Eymann by acclamation for the second ballot.
On the other hand, senior vice president candidate Stefan Suter declared his resignation on Monday night. The SVP announced that it had decided together with the party executive. Side contestant Suter came in ninth on the first ballot with 12,769 votes. The SVP has stated that it has managed to generate votes well beyond the party line. Suter will become politicized in the future at the Grand Council.
