{"id":47155,"date":"2019-10-21T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T03:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47155"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T03:11:00","slug":"landslide-green-gains-tip-swiss-parliament-to-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47155","title":{"rendered":"Landslide Green gains tip Swiss parliament to the left"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Green politicians celebrate victory in elections to the Swiss parliament<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

GENEVA, Oct 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Green parties have made\u00a0historic gains at the expense of those to the right and the left in elections to the Swiss parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final results show the left-wing Green Party winning 13% of the vote for the House of Representatives \u2013 up nearly 6% on 2015 and their best result ever. The centrist Liberal Greens also increased their share of the vote to 7.9% from 4.6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right-wing People’s Party remains the largest group in the House ahead of the left-wing Social Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, the left and the centre have gained ground, prompting speculation about a reshuffle of the multi-party government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“People want a more environmentally-friendly policy and the result of the vote should also be reflected in\u00a0the government,” said Green Party president, Regula Rytz.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seven-member executive is currently made up of members of the main four parties, but not the Greens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental concerns dominated campaigns in the run-up to Sunday’s vote. Numerous street protests<\/a> demanding action on climate change took place across the Switzerland over the past ten months.
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The leading right-wing Swiss People\u2019s Party and the left-wing Social Democrats lost voter support \u2013 down 3.6%  and 2.2% respectively \u2013 compared with 2015.
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The Greens have taken 28 House seats, more than doubling their representation and placing them ahead of the Christian Democrats and only one seat behind the Radicals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of female parliamentarians has risen to 85 in the House, according to official results. That’s 10% more than in the outgoing parliament.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, none of the more than 70 expatriate Swiss candidates was elected.
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Turnout was just over 46%, according to pollsters, a decrease of nearly 3% on the previous elections in 2015.
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In the elections to the 46-member SENATE, the Greens have won at least two seats, while the People’s Party and the Social Democrats\u00a0lost\u00a0at least one seat each,\u00a0according to partial results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Run-off elections will be held next month in 14 of the 26 cantons since candidates failed to win an absolute majority of votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Christian Democrats and the Radicals traditionally hold a clear majority in the Senate. Under the parliamentary system in Switzerland, both chambers have equal powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new parliament will meet for the first time at the beginning of December when\u00a0it is due to elect the\u00a0government for the next four years.\u00a0— NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GENEVA, Oct 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Green parties have made\u00a0historic gains at the expense of those to the right and the left in elections to the Swiss parliament. Final results show the left-wing Green Party winning 13% of the vote for the House of Representatives \u2013 up nearly 6% on 2015 and their best result ever. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}