48th legislative period of the Swiss Federal Assembly
The 48th legislative period of the Swiss Federal Assembly lasted from December 3, 2007 to December 5, 2011. The meeting place for the National Council and the Council of States was the Federal Palace in Bern .
Sessions
As a rule, four three-week sessions per calendar year take place in the Federal Assembly. In the event of a high workload or due to extraordinary events, the councils can be convened for additional sessions (special sessions or extraordinary sessions). In the 48th legislative period, the following special sessions were held in addition to the regular sessions:
2008
Special session of the Council of States: April 28
2009
National Council special session: 27.– 30. April
special session Council of States: 10-11. August
2011
National Council special session: 11-14 April
composition
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As a result of the elections on October 21, 2007 the distribution of seats was as follows:
| Political party | Total seats | National Council | Council of States | change | |
| Swiss People's Party (SVP) | 69 | 62 | 7th | +6 | |
| Social Democratic Party (SP) | 52 | 43 | 9 | −9 | |
| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 43 | 31 | 12 | −7 | |
| Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) | 46 | 31 | 15th | +3 | |
| Green Party (GPS) | 22nd | 20th | 2 | +9 | |
| Liberal Party (LPS) | 4th | 4th | - | 0 | |
| Green Liberal Party (GLP) | 4th | 3 | 1 | +4 | |
| Evangelical People's Party (EPP) | 2 | 2 | - | −1 | |
| Federal Democratic Union (EDU) | 1 | 1 | - | −1 | |
| Labor Party (PdA) | 1 | 1 | - | −1 | |
| Left Alliance Solidarity (Sol) | 0 | 0 | - | −1 | |
| Swiss Democrats (SD) | 0 | 0 | - | −1 | |
| Lega dei Ticinesi (Lega) | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | |
| Christian Social Party (CSP) | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | |
Changes during the legislature
- NR Christian Waber (EDU / BE) resigned from the SVP parliamentary group on December 18, 2007 and is non-attached.
- SR Fritz Schiesser (FDP / GL) was sworn in as President of the ETH Board on March 3, 2008 . In his place, Pankraz Friday was elected to the Council of States.
- Spin-off of the BDP from the SVP from June 2008:
- NR Brigitta Gadient and Hansjörg Hassler were expelled from the SVP on June 16 with the BDP Graubünden .
- NR Hans Grunder and Ursula Haller as well as SR Werner Luginbühl transferred from SVP to BDP Bern on June 21.
- NR Ruth Genner was elected to the Zurich government and made room for Katharina Prelicz-Huber in the National Council in autumn .
- NR Hugo Fasel was replaced by Marie-Thérèse Weber-Gobet at the beginning of the 2008 winter session .
- At the end of 2008, the SP National Councilor Werner Marti resigned. Martin Landolt (BDP) was elected to replace Marti on February 8, 2009 .
- NR Urs Hofmann was replaced by Max Chopard-Acklin at the beginning of the 2009 spring session .
- NR Ueli Maurer was replaced by Ulrich Schlüer at the beginning of the 2009 spring session .
- At the end of May 2010, the CVP Council of States from Uri, Hansruedi Stadler, resigned. Markus Stadler (glp) was elected as a replacement on April 25, 2010 .
- NR Jean-Henri Dunant was replaced by Sebastian Frehner at the beginning of the 2010 winter session .
- NR Johann Schneider-Ammann was replaced by Peter Flück after his election to the Federal Council .
- After the election of SR Simonetta Sommaruga to the Federal Council, the voters of the canton of Bern elected NR Adrian Amstutz (SVP) as their successor on March 6, 2011 .
- As a result of his election to the Council of States, NR Adrian Amstutz was replaced by Thomas Fuchs at the beginning of the 2011 summer session.
- As a result of his election to the State Council of the Canton of Ticino, NR Norman Gobbi was replaced by Lorenzo Quadri at the beginning of the 2011 summer session .
- NR André Daguet was replaced by Corrado Pardini at the beginning of the 2011 summer session .
Praesidia
National Council
| Term of office | Council President | Canton | Remarks | |
| 2007 | Paul Rechsteiner | St. Gallen | Age president | |
| 2007/2008 | André Bugnon | Vaud | ||
| 2008/2009 | Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi | Ticino | ||
| 2009/2010 | Pascale Bruderer | Aargau | ||
| 2010/2011 | Jean-René Germanier | Valais | ||
Council of States
| Term of office | Council President | Canton | Remarks | |
| 2007/2008 | Christoffel Brändli | Grisons | ||
| 2008/2009 | Alain Berset | Freiburg | ||
| 2009/2010 | Erika Forster-Vannini | St. Gallen | ||
| 2010/2011 | Hansheiri Inderkum | Uri | ||
Parliamentary group leaders
| fraction | Term of office | Group leader | Canton | |
| Group of the Swiss People's Party | 2007-2011 | Caspar Baader | Basel-Country | |
| Socialist Group | 2007-2011 | Ursula Wyss | Bern | |
| Liberal Democratic Group | 2007-2008 | Felix Gutzwiller | Zurich | |
| 2008-2011 | Gabi Huber | Uri | ||
| CVP / EPP / glp | 2007-2011 | Urs Schwaller | Freiburg | |
| Green Group | 2007-2009 | Therese Froesch | Bern | |
| 2009-2010 | Maya Count | Basel-Country | ||
| 2010-2011 | Antonio Hodgers | Geneva | ||
| Group of the Bourgeois Democratic Party | 2009-2011 | Brigitta Gadient | Grisons | |
Members of the National Council
Members of the Council of States
See list of members of the Swiss Council of States in the 48th legislative period .
See also
- Federal Council election 2007
- Federal Council election 2008
- Federal Council election 2009
- Federal Council election 2010
Remarks
- ↑ The count of the legislative period is based on the corresponding count for the National Council. As the representative of the cantons (estates), the Council of States itself has no legislative periods. It has been meeting permanently since 1848 and for this reason has no senior committee.
- ↑ The legislative period of the National Council begins and ends with the constituent session of the newly elected National Council. See the factual report for the legislative period (status: summer 2018) by the Parliamentary Services ( available online ), page 4.
- ↑ http://www.parlament.ch/d/sessionen/sessionsdaten/Seiten/default.aspx
- ↑ Connection to the FDP parliamentary group
- ^ Affiliation with the CVP parliamentary group
- ^ Affiliation with the CVP parliamentary group
- ↑ non-attached
- ^ Affiliation with the Green Group
- ↑ Affiliation with the SVP parliamentary group
- ^ Affiliation with the Green Group
- ↑ Changes in the 48th legislative period Archive link ( Memento from October 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.ur.ch/dateimanager/2010kantapril_sr_1.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Newsletter, November 8th Peter Flück remains in the Grand Council . In: FDP Canton of Bern . Retrieved on January 20, 2011. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ When the National Council and Council of States meet together as a United Federal Assembly, the Presidium of the National Council chairs the meeting.
- ↑ The senior president chairs the first session in the new legislative period
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