Support for the Greens surged in Switzerland's election on Sunday, moving p...
BERN - Support for the Greens surged in Switzerland’s election on Sunday, moving politics to the left and putting environmentalists in the mix for a seat in the broad coalition that has governed the country for decades.
“It is not a green wave, it is a tsunami, a hurricane,” Celine Vara, deputy Greens leader who won a seat in the upper house of parliament for Neuchatel canton, told Swiss radio. The SVP, which won a record number of seats in 2015 amid Europe’s refugee crisis, slipped 3.6 points to 25.8% while the Greens’ share surged 5.9 points to 13.0% of the vote for the lower house, according to a gfs.bern projection for broadcaster SRF.
Changing just one member of the cabinet would be a political sensation. The Greens have never had a seat in the federal government. “The Federal Council in its current composition no longer fits ,” Greens leader Regula Rytz told Swiss TV, suggesting the party could seek to wrest a cabinet seat from the FDP.
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