Despite their defeat in Sunday's parliamentary elections, the Greens are determined to make a run for a government seat, party president Balthasar Glättli announced on Saturday.
“The climate needs to be represented on the Federal Council,” Glättli told reporters. “The old magic formula is definitely dead,” he continued. The magic formula refers to the division of the seven cabinet seats among the four main political parties.
The Greens, who achieved their second-best ever result with a 9.8% share of the electorate in Sunday’s election, are entitled to a seat in the government, according to him.
The Greens lost five seats in the House of Representatives in last Sunday’s elections and now have 23 seats. They lost 3.4 percentage points of voter share nationally. Despite these significant losses, they remain the fifth strongest force. ...