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The Federal Council in its current form is no longer relevant. According to the SRG’s election barometer, 58 percent of voters share this opinion. The clear majority of the electorate wants a different party political composition. Today, the three largest parties SVP, SP and FDP each send two representatives to the Federal Council, and the Center, as the fourth strongest party, also sends a female federal councilor.
The desire for change is obviously strongest among Green Party voters, whose party has grown significantly over time and yet remains unrepresented in the Federal Council. No less than 93 percent of their supporters demand a new composition.
But the majority of SP, GLP and Mitte voters also agree with this wish. Even in the SVP, 42 percent demand that the state government be composed differently. Only the supporters of the FDP are actually satisfied with the current situation – precisely the party whose second seat is at the center of the debate.
Extra center left seat
But which party should be represented and how strongly in the Federal Council? There is no absolute majority for one of the many possible models. However, the idea that the center-left (SP, Greens, GLP and Center) should get an extra seat at the expense of the SVP and FDP will most likely receive support. 26 percent of respondents from the Sotomo research institute are in favor of this. Ultimately, the center-left has a voter share of 51.2 percent in the current election barometer.
20 percent (multiple answers were possible) specifically stated that the FDP should give up a seat that would then go to the Greens. The version in which the SP has to give up a seat to the Greens and nothing else changes receives significantly less support (six percent).
Block thinking doesn’t work
A rarely discussed, purely bourgeois Federal Council – the SP would be thrown out – appeals to only 13 percent of the voters. But that is still more than other variants that are more intensively debated. The version popular among political observers is that the eco-parties Greens and GLP should each get one seat, at the expense of the SP and FDP. Their main argument: in this way the parties, which are no longer so small, can be integrated without shifting the power blocs between left and right. However, only ten percent of respondents are enthusiastic about this variant.
How intense the discussion about the composition of the Federal Council will be in the coming weeks will largely depend on the outcome of the elections. If the Greens fall below the 10 percent limit, their dreams about the Federal Council will come to an abrupt end. But in any case, the bourgeois parties, including the center, have already made it clear that they do not want to change the current composition of the Federal Council.
But if voters actually withdraw from the eco-parties on election Sunday as strongly as the current election barometer predicts and the center actually leaves the FDP behind, center leader Gerhard Pfister (61) could suddenly be forced by the will of the voters who are in conflict with promises to the contrary, to make the Liberals’ second seat a problem.
Source:Blick
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