Socialists in trouble

Lhe canton of Bern will remain governed by a right-wing majority. Despite an alliance with the Greens, the socialist mayor of Biel, Erich Fehr, did not manage to steal the seat of the Center to tip the balance of power to the left. Faced with a right-wing alliance, he even failed by more than 20,000 votes. At the microphone of the RTS, he sighs: “If there is no crack in the bourgeois bloc, it’s complicated.” Everything indicates that the centrist Astrid Bärtschi benefited from the votes of the UDC and the PLR. In parliament, the Socialists lost six seats while the Greens won…