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Christian Amsler after the hearing of the FDP parliamentary group. image: Peter Klaunzer / Keystone
Elections hit in Schaffhausen: the almost federal councilor is eliminated, the SP conquers the seat of the FDP
The Sunday of the elections in Schaffhausen ends badly for Christian Amsler (FDP): the governing council in office was eliminated after ten years. Patrick Strasser from SP replaces him.
Not long ago, Christian Amsler almost voluntarily resigned from his post as councilor to the Schaffhausen government: he was one of the possible successors of Johann Schneider-Ammann. In the internal march of the party, he was later defeated by Federal Councilor Karin Keller-Sutter and Hans Wicki. Now, two years later, Amsler is involuntarily no longer a councilor. The Schaffhausen electorate voted outside the governing council that has been in office for 10 years. The FDP thus loses its second seat in the government.
This in favor of the SP. New candidate Patrick Strasser got more than 4,600 votes more than Amsler. Dino Tamagni (SVP) also made the leap to the governing council. He replaces his party colleague Ernst Landolt, who did not stand for election again. Schaffhausen’s five-member government councilor is completed by former Cornelia Stamm Hurter (SVP), Martin Kessler (FDP) and Walter Vogelsanger (SP).
Christian Amsler made headlines due to several complaints at the school’s dental clinic. A parliamentary inquiry commission harshly criticized him and his administration. Amsler was blamed for failing to challenge potential conflicts of interest at the school’s dental clinic and for neglecting controls as head of the education department.
Still a bourgeois majority
With two vice-presidents, two representatives from the SP and one from the FDP, the majority in the Schaffhausen governing council remains in bourgeois hands. There was no change in the low proportion of women in the five-member government of Schaffhausen; Apart from the Hurter tribe, no women stood for election.
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