Federal Council election 1995 (replacement election)

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On September 27, 1995, a replacement election for the Federal Council took place in Switzerland .

The replacement election was made necessary by the resignation of Federal Councilor Otto Stich ( SP ). He mainly justified his resignation with his age. He later admitted that there was a connection with a defeat in the Federal Council in the decision to build the NEAT with the Lötschberg base tunnel .

The SP, which was entitled to the seat according to the magic formula , nominated two men for election: Otto Piller (Freiburg) and Moritz Leuenberger (Zurich). Strong forces in the FDP faction wanted to break the magic formula and demanded an FDP candidacy. Vreni Spoerry would have made himself available for this. However, after a tight parliamentary group decision, no candidacy was made. The SVP and the CVP have announced that they will not question the concordance and will elect an SP candidate.

The SP members Eduard Belser and Gret Haller were not official candidates either. Since the SP was already represented by a woman in the Federal Council with Ruth Dreifuss , the gender issue hardly played a role.

Results

  1st ballot 2nd ballot 3rd ballot 4th ballot 5th ballot
ballot papers distributed 244 244 244 244 244
ballot papers received 244 244 243 244 244
empty / invalid 1/0 0/1 1/0 11/0 33/1
valid total 243 243 242 233 210
absolute more 122 122 122 117 106
Moritz Leuenberger 81 96 105 110 124
Otto Piller 48 68 76 73 86
Eduard Belser 17th 27 40 50 -
Vreni Spoerry 65 45 21st - -
Gret Haller 15th - - - -
various 10 2 - - -

In the fifth ballot, the official candidate Moritz Leuenberger prevailed by 36 votes. The handover took place on October 31, 1995.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SRG SSR Timeline