The EDU believes that cantonal elections are not elections in the true sense of the word. The candidates are elected because their party has placed them on the electoral list. It is therefore not allowed for an elected person to change parties and take the seat in the new party between the cantonal elections and the start of the new legislature.
The legal arrangement, which the EDU calls for in its proposal, is intended to provide that the seat remains with the previous party during this time. The first alternate candidate would therefore move up.
This also applies when an elected member of parliament resigns between the election and the start of the legislature, moves to another canton or dies. The parliament will debate the proposal in one of the upcoming sessions.
Isabel Garcia’s party change from the GLP to the FDP just eleven days after the election has sparked outrage in recent weeks. Especially since the Climate Alliance loses its narrow majority as a result. The Council will be in an impasse from May, when the new legislature begins.
Personal absence, for example due to illness, will influence the result of the vote even more than before.
The GLP, like the other parties in the Climate Alliance, reacted to the party change with dismay. The GLP now wants to persuade Garcia to resign so that the seat stays with her.
A veritable storm of outrage was directed at Garcia on social media, so she eventually deleted her Twitter profile. There is also now a petition calling for Garcia’s resignation. Posters calling Garcia an “anti-democrat” were also put up in Zurich.
There have also been party changes in the canton of Zurich in the past, for example Maria Rita Marty switched from the EDU to the SVP and Konrad Langhart from the SVP to the centre. However, this defection did not prevent either side from losing a majority, so they attracted less attention. Moreover, they did not take place immediately after the elections. (SDA)
Source:Blick
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