Basel has voted: these are the 100 people in the Grand Council

There will be some changes in parliament, and rotations are likely to occur again after the second vote.

Sebastian Briellmann

Posted today at 7:20 am

Sometimes a voice, a little voice, would decide if it would work to move on to the Grand Council, but sometimes it was also a clear matter (read more about the Grand Council elections here). The many modified lists, which caused a long delay in the count, show that it is no longer the trend to simply throw a party slip; no, apparently the citizens thought a lot before putting up their crosses.

In the following list you can see the 100 people who, today, are moving into parliament.

SP (30 seats)

Four seats down, Janu, but it’s still by far the biggest game in town. As professional as ever, President Pascal Pfister has already gone on to campaign for the second round of the governing council elections. There are no surprises in the Grand Council elections: given that Sarah Wyss is replacing Beat Jans on the National Council and Kaspar Sutter stands a good chance of being elected to the government on November 29, two successors should be ready soon.

1/30

Green Alliance (18 seats)

Winner # 1: Four more seats, that’s strong. Interesting: with 19-year-old Laurin Hoppler, a representative of the climate movement comes to parliament. Will that change the political climate? We are excited.

1/18

LDP (14 seats)

It’s all the same with the Liberals, but after Stephanie Eymann nearly moved out, they were expecting a raise Sunday afternoon. Nevertheless, 14 seats is a good result.

1/14

SVP (11 seats)

Big loser number 1: The senior vice president is having a difficult time in Switzerland, and traditionally even more so in Basel-Stadt. No wonder: four seats have been lost. That’s a disappointment, of course, but if you ask inside the party, it’s still half acceptable. It’s a setback, yes, but not a debacle. You could say it.

1/11

Green Liberals (8 seats)

Winner # 2: Natural, Green, and Liberal Together is currently the most fashionable number on the charts. However, until now, we don’t really know what exactly GLP means. The gossips say: For a little environmental protection, a little bourgeois financial policy, and a lot of nothing. Now, with eight seats, you are no longer the tip of the scale, but the tongue on the scale. Without LPG there is no majority in the Great Council. Where do the elect orient themselves, to the left, to the right, sometimes like this, sometimes like this? This question is probably the most exciting after the elections!

1/8

FDP (7 seats)

Big loser number 2: Oh, Freinness, he’s having a hard time too. At the national level, it has big problems and in Basel it is still the junior partner of the powerful PLD. The result is minus four seats. Nobody is surprised. Rather, it is rumored that everything could have been worse …

1/7

CVP (7 seats)

CVP representatives had to give a lot of information during the election campaign, but mainly about the merger with the BDP and the new name “Die Mitte”. Everyone expected a loss, even a loss in the strength of the faction. But lo and behold: all seven seats taken. This is a surprise.

1/7

EPP (3 places)

Great success for the small group after the abolition of the quorum. Three seats is a difficult number. Where, one can be curious, will they position themselves in the bourgeois bloc?

1/3

Active Bettingen * (1 seat)

Nothing new at Bettingen. Olivier Battaglia keeps his seat smoothly, thus strengthening the PLD faction.

Popular action against too many foreigners and asylum seekers in our homeland (1 seat)

Sometimes you may not believe it, but in Kleinbasel Eric Weber always manages to mobilize enough voters, at least when there is no quorum. It is not to be expected that the politician and his one-man party (popular campaign against too many foreigners and asylum seekers) will become more involved in parliamentary operations in the future. Upon his election, he said he had “prepared 950 initiatives.”

Posted today at 7:20 am