Four years ago, the green wave swept through Lucerne. This year, the surprise guest of the campaign might well be the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS. According to several observers, this crisis might bring to the polls voters who usually do not vote.
The left hopes to take advantage of this. “I have the feeling that this might motivate people who are reluctant to vote,” said Raoul Niederberger, co-president of the Lucerne Greens, Thursday in La Matinale. According to him, the electorate might turn to the pink-green camps to obtain “changes in the world of finance”
No instrumentalization
Will the Credit Suisse debacle cost the bourgeois camp votes, as the left suggests? The radical liberal party refutes this analysis. “I think the Swiss PLR has positioned itself fairly and reasonably,” said Jacqueline Theiler, president of the Lucerne PLR.
However, she indicates that it is not up to the cantonal party to exploit “this tragic crisis” for electoral purposes. “I am convinced that the people of Lucerne do not see it that way. And they will not let themselves be influenced.”
With or without a banking crisis, the ballot promises to be exciting in any case in Lucerne, especially in the race for government where three of the five outgoing State Councilors are not standing once more. For the executive, it will also be the end of two exclusively male legislatures.
Delphine Gendre/rehearsal
