50th legislative period of the Swiss Federal Assembly

The 50th legislative period of the Swiss Federal Assembly began on November 30, 2015. It ended on December 2, 2019 with the constituent session of the 51st legislative period . The meeting place for the National Council and the Council of States is the Bundeshaus in Bern .

Sessions

As a rule, there are four three-week sessions per calendar year. 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).

composition

National Council seating arrangements from December 2016 by parliamentary group

Seating arrangements for the Council of States from December 2016 by parliamentary group

Elections on October 18, 2015

Political party		Abbr.	Total seats	National Council	Council of States	change
	Swiss People's Party	SVP	70	65	5	+11
	Social Democratic Party	SP	55	43	12	−2
	FDP The Liberals	FDP	46	33	13	+5
	Christian Democratic People's Party	CVP	40	27	13	−1
	Green party	GPS	12	11	1	−5
	Bourgeois Democratic Party	BDP	8th	7th	1	−2
	Green Liberal Party	GLP	7th	7th	-	−7
	Evangelical People's Party	EPP	2	2	-	0
	Lega dei Ticinesi	Lega	2	2	-	0
	Christian Social Party Obwalden	CSP OW	1	1	-	0
	Mouvement citoyens genevois	MCG	1	1	-	0
	Party of labor	PdA	1	1	-	+1
	independent		1	0	1	0

Praesidia

National Council

Term of office		Council President	Canton	comment
	2015	Luzi tribe	Aargau	Age president
	2015/2016	Christa Markwalder	Bern
	2016/2017	Jürg Stahl	Zurich
	2017/2018	Dominique de Buman	Freiburg
	2018/2019	Marina Carobbio Guscetti	Ticino

Council of States

Term of office		Council President	Canton	Remarks
	2015/2016	Raphael Comte	Neuchâtel
	2016/2017	Ivo Bischofberger	Appenzell Innerrhoden
	2017/2018	Karin Keller-Sutter	St. Gallen
	2018/2019	Jean-René Fournier	Valais

Parliamentary group leaders

fraction		Term of office	Group leader	Canton
	Group of the Swiss People's Party	2012-2017	Adrian Amstutz	Bern
		since 2017	Thomas Aeschi	train
	Socialist Group	since 2015	Roger Nordmann	Vaud
	FDP-Liberal Group	2015-2017	Ignazio Cassis	Ticino
		since 2017	Beat Walti	Zurich
	CVP / EPP Group	since 2014	Filippo Lombardi	Ticino
	Green Group	since 2013	Balthasar Glättli	Zurich
	Green Liberal Group	since 2011	Tiana Angelina Moser	Zurich
	Group of the Bourgeois Democratic Party	since 2015	Rosmarie Quadranti	Zurich

Members of the National Council

See the list of members of the Swiss National Council in the 50th legislative period

Members of the Council of States

See the list of members of the Swiss Council of States in the 50th legislative period

See also

• Federal Council election 2015
• Federal Council election 2017
• Federal Council election 2018

Remarks

1. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ The legislative period of the National Council begins and ends with the constituent session of the newly elected National Council. This takes place on the seventh Monday after the election. See the factual report for the legislative period (status: summer 2018) by the Parliamentary Services ( available online ), page 4.
3. ^ Affiliation with the CVP parliamentary group
4. ↑ Affiliation with the SVP parliamentary group
5. ^ Affiliation with the CVP parliamentary group
6. ^ Affiliation with the Green Group
7. ↑ Affiliation with the SVP parliamentary group
8. ↑ When the National Council and Council of States meet together as a United Federal Assembly, the Presidium of the National Council chairs the meeting.

Web links

• Overview of the legislative reviews of the councils and commissions of the Federal Assembly
• Composition of the National Council after the 2015 elections
• Composition of the Council of States after the 2015 elections