Sympathy or strategy – what decides the Federal Council race in the parliamentary group?
On Saturday, the SP determines the two candidates for their Bundesrat ticket. Which combination is the most realistic? And which reasons are decisive for a choice?
In the end it was a voice that made the difference. One vote for Hans-Ueli Vogt. One vote against Werner Salzmann. Vogt had won and is now on the ticket for the successor to Ueli Maurer in the Bundesrat alongside Albert Rösti.
In the SP, this decision is still pending in the parliamentary group, on Saturday morning the two official candidates to succeed Simonetta Sommaruga will be determined. Reason for the “Politburo”, Tamedia’s politics podcast, to take a look behind the doors of the parliamentary group room: Why does Elisabeth Baume-Schneider suddenly have a great chance of getting the ticket? To what extent does the election mode influence the composition of the candidacies? And what is decisive for a parliamentary group member in the election: competence? Sympathy? Access?
Markus Häfliger and Christoph Lenz discuss this in a new episode of the “Politburo”. The host is Philipp Loser.
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