51st legislative period of the Swiss Federal Assembly

The 51st legislative period of the Swiss Federal Assembly began on December 2, 2019. It will end on December 4, 2023 with the constituent session of the 52nd legislative period . The meeting place for the National Council and the Council of States is the Bundeshaus in Bern .

Sessions

Corona protection information in the anteroom of the National Council chamber

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).

On March 15, 2020, the spring session was canceled after two weeks due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus . This was an extraordinary decision.

composition

Elections on October 20, 2019
	Abbr.	Total seats	National Council	Council of States	change
Swiss People's Party	SVP	59	53	6th	−11
Social Democratic Party	SP	48	39	9	−7
FDP The Liberals	FDP	41	29	12	−5
Christian Democratic People's Party	CVP	39	25th	14th	−1
Green party	GPS	33	28	5	+21
Green Liberal Party	GLP	16	16	-	+9
Bourgeois Democratic Party	BDP	3	3	-	−5
Evangelical People's Party	EPP	3	3	-	+1
Lega dei Ticinesi	Lega	1	1	-	−1
Party of labor	PdA	1	1	-	0
solidarityS	SOL	1	1	-	+1
Federal Democratic Union	EDU	1	1	-	+1
independent		1	-	1	0

Praesidia

National Council

Term of office		Council President	Canton	comment
	2019	Maya Count	Canton of Basel-Country Basel-Country	Age president
	2019/2020	Isabelle Moret	Canton of Vaud Vaud

Council of States

Term of office		Council President	Canton	Remarks
	2019/2020	Hans Stöckli	Canton Bern Bern

Parliamentary group leaders

	Term of office	Group leader	Canton
Group of the Swiss People's Party	since 2017	Thomas Aeschi	Canton of Zug train
Socialist Group	since 2015	Roger Nordmann	Canton of Vaud Vaud
Middle group. CVP-EVP-BDP	since 2019	Leo Müller (interim)	Canton lucerne Lucerne
FDP-Liberal Group	since 2017	Beat Walti	Canton Zurich Zurich
Green Group	2013-2020	Balthasar Glättli	Canton Zurich Zurich
Green Group	since 2020	Aline Trede	Canton Bern Bern
Green Liberal Group	since 2011	Tiana Angelina Moser	Canton Zurich Zurich

Members of the National Council

See list of members of the Swiss National Council in the 51st legislative period

Members of the Council of States

See list of members of the Swiss Council of States in the 51st legislative period

Web links

Overview of the legislative reviews of the councils and commissions of the Federal Assembly

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. 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.
^ No third week of the spring session of the Federal Assembly. In: parlament.ch. March 15, 2020, accessed March 16, 2020 .
↑ In the past, parliamentary sessions were often interrupted. In: parlament.ch. March 16, 2020, accessed March 16, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b affiliation with the CVP parliamentary group
↑ ^a ^b ^c affiliation with the SVP parliamentary group
↑ ^a ^b affiliation to the Green parliamentary group
↑ When the National Council and Council of States meet together as a United Federal Assembly, the Presidium of the National Council chairs the meeting.

[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] No third week of the spring session of the Federal Assembly. In: parlament.ch. March 15, 2020, accessed March 16, 2020 .

[4] In the past, parliamentary sessions were often interrupted. In: parlament.ch. March 16, 2020, accessed March 16, 2020 .

[cvp-5] tion with the CVP parliamentary group

[svp-6] ↑ ^a ^b ^c affiliation with the SVP parliamentary group

[grüne-7] tion to the Green 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.