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Green is the hope? Not this Sunday. The Green Party is the big loser in the 2023 elections. It has to lose more than 4 percentage points – and thus falls below the 10 percent threshold again. Four years ago they had jumped over it to loud cheers. But now the Greens have lost five seats and still have 23 mandates.
Instead of a party atmosphere, there was a leaden heaviness in the bar in Bern’s Old Town, which the party had rented for its election party. Many Greens didn’t even want to experience that. Everyone there looked sadly at their smartphones. You can hardly feel lonelier than a Green on a Sunday.
Kurt Egger (67) from Thurgau, Valentine Python (48) from Vaud, Isabelle Pasquier (50) from Geneva, Natalie Imboden (53) from Bern and Meret Schneider (31) from Zurich have to say goodbye involuntarily to Federal Bern. “We will miss every person,” said President Balthasar Glättli (51).
Glättli talks things out
For Glättli, the election result is a defeat. “Don’t sugarcoat it,” as he said on Blick TV’s elephant group. But that’s exactly what Glättli did. The campaign was better than ever, he said. But the task is not easy. What is certainly true: it was clear that the Greens would lose. But just as strong?
Even a donation of a million dollars, which the party used to create an app, could not prevent the debacle. The question arises to what extent climate activists are partly responsible for the collapse of the Green Party. They disrupt traffic several times a week, but climate protesters also use golf courses and classical concerts to highlight their concerns.
They are already so on the nerves of the population in this country that, according to the SRG election barometer, they are now considered the third biggest annoyance to the population. And they are and were often associated with the Greens.
And on the other hand, the Greens have disappointed those who went to the polls for them in 2019. They achieved too little for the climate and were stuck between solar systems and biotope protection.
“To put it positively: we were able to keep two-thirds of the seats,” Glättli said, trying to sell the poor result. Instead, he is concerned about the ‘SVP slide’: “This is a bad sign for climate protection, for equality, but also for relations in Europe,” said the election loser.
Do not bury dreams of the Federal Council
They want to discuss the question of what personal consequences the Greens will draw from the defeat in an extraordinary meeting on Friday. They will also discuss the issue of the Federal Council there.
Despite the major losses on election day, the party is inclined to propose a candidacy on December 13 to succeed SP federal councilor Alain Berset (51): “Yes, the trend is that we are on the run,” says group leader Aline Trede (40). ) on Sunday evening. Arithmetically, the Greens would still be entitled to one seat. “But I don’t know what Parliament is thinking now after today’s results.”
Source:Blick
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