District Administrator (Uri)

The district administrator is the parliament or legislature of the Swiss canton of Uri . The 64 members meet regularly in Altdorf and decide on legislation there. They are elected by the people for four years. Each of the canton's 20 communes forms its own constituency. The election takes place in the four largest municipalities according to proportional representation with cross-constituency compensation ( double Pukelsheim ). The remaining 20 municipalities vote according to Majorz . The district administrator holds nine sessions per year. The last district and government council elections took place on March 8, 2020.

tasks

The district administrator exercises overall supervision over all authorities which perform cantonal tasks.

It constitutes itself and elects its President and Vice-President from among its members for a period of one year each.

In contrast to other cantons, the governor and governor are not elected by the district administrator, but directly by the people. The Uri District Administrator elects the members of the Education Council, Heads and Deputies of the Government Council Directorates, the Commander of the Uri Battalion and the Bank Council of the Urner Kantonalbank. The district administrator submits all important provisions to the people, usually in the form of laws. It decides on the admissibility of popular initiatives that have come about.

The parties

After the elections from 1932 to 2020, the distribution of seats in the Uri District Administrator was as follows:

Source:

Members

eligibility

The Uri canton constitution stipulates that, in the interests of the separation of powers, no one may be a member of the district administrator and the government council at the same time. Furthermore, district administrators and government councilors may not belong to any court. Full-time employees of the authorities are also prohibited from becoming members of the district council. Spouses, registered partners and life partners as well as first and second degree relatives and first and second degree by-laws may not belong to the same cantonal and communal authorities; however, this prohibition expressly does not apply to the district administrator. The district administrator's regular term of office is four years. The regular start of the year of service is June 1.

Number and distribution among the constituencies

The district administrator has 64 members. The distribution of the number of seats to the municipalities is based on the last federal census. However, according to Article 88 of the Uri cantonal constitution, the decisive factor is not the number of inhabitants in a municipality, but the number of residents with Swiss citizenship. Each municipality is entitled to at least one seat.

local community	Number of representatives	Electoral system
Altdorf	15th	Proportional
Andermatt	02	Majorz
Attinghausen	03	Majorz
To build	01	Majorz
Bürglen	07th	Proportional
Erstfeld	06th	Proportional
Flüelen	03	Majorz
Göschenen	01	Majorz
Belt fasteners	01	Majorz
Hospental	01	Majorz
Isenthal	01	Majorz
Realp	01	Majorz
Schattdorf	09	Proportional
Seedorf	03	Majorz
Seelisberg	01	Majorz
Silenen	04th	Majorz
Sisikon	01	Majorz
Spiringen	02	Majorz
Undercutting	01	Majorz
Water	01	Majorz

A popular initiative of the young CVP Uri under the title head instead of party elections , which demanded the pure majority election of the Uri district administrator, was rejected by the people on 23 September 2012 with 57.5 percent of the votes.

Up to and including the 2016 election, proportional representation was held in all municipalities with three or more seats. According to a federal court ruling (1C_511 / 2015) from 2016, the existing right to vote was unconstitutional, as the natural quorum (implicit threshold clause ) was well above the permissible 10% in several proportional constituencies . Due to this, the majority procedure was introduced in the four smaller of the previous eight proportional constituencies, while a cross-constituency compensation ( Doppelter Pukelsheim ) was created for the remaining four proportional constituencies .

compensation

The remuneration of the district administrators is regulated in Uri in the secondary office ordinance. Each member receives 160 francs per district council meeting, the president of the district council receives 320 francs. In addition, there is an additional 160 francs for members in district commissions for full-day meetings and 105 francs for half-day meetings; Commission presidents receive an allowance of 78 francs.

Members of the District Administrator

As of November 22, 2017

The SP forms a parliamentary group with the Greens .

The President, the Vice-President, the first and the second teller form the Council Management (formerly the District Office).

Surname	vintage	Political party	place of residence	function	Year of entry
Elias Arnold	1996	SVP	Altdorf UR	member	2017
Pascal Blöchlinger	1977	SVP	Altdorf UR	1. Vote counter	2012
Nicole Cathry	1983	FDP	Altdorf UR	member	2012
Celine Huber	1987	CVP	Altdorf UR	member	2012
Thomas Huwyler	1967	SP	Altdorf UR	Group President (SP / Greens)	2012
Nina Marty	1983	SP	Altdorf UR	member	2013
Thomas Sure	1966	FDP	Altdorf UR	member	2012
Petra Simmen	1968	SVP	Altdorf UR	member	2008
Simon Stadler	1988	CVP	Altdorf UR	member	2012
Michael Arnold Barengo	1973	CVP	Altdorf UR	member	2016
Kurt Gisler	1971	CVP	Altdorf UR	member	2016
Rafael Keusch	1984	CVP	Altdorf UR	member	2016
Marco Roeleven	1966	FDP	Altdorf UR	member	2016
Adriano Prandi	1964	SP	Altdorf UR	member	2016
Nora summer	1964	SP	Altdorf UR	member	2016
Ludwig Loretz	1964	FDP	Andermatt	member	2012
Frieda Steffen	1959	CVP	Andermatt	member	2008
Ruedy Zgraggen	1953	CVP	Attinghausen	2. Vote counter	2012
Alois Zurfluh	1966	CVP	Attinghausen	member	2008
Markus Zurfluh	1969	FDP	Attinghausen	Parliamentary group president (FDP)	2008
Anton Infanger	1947	SVP	Build UR	member	2012
Alois Arnold	1965	SVP	Bürglen UR	member	2008
Alois Arnold	1981	SVP	Bürglen UR	member	2013
Bernadette Arnold	1968	CVP	Bürglen UR	member	2012
Bernhard Epp	1960	FDP	Bürglen UR	member	2012
Claudia Gisler	1967	CVP	Bürglen UR	member	2012
Toni Moser	1955	SP	Bürglen UR	member	2004
Hansueli Gisler	1970	SVP	Bürglen UR	member	2016
Daniel Furrer	1971	CVP	Erstfeld	Group President (CVP)	2008
Nina Rufener	1990	FDP	Erstfeld	member	2014
Karin Aschwanden Gaiser	1966	CVP	Erstfeld	member	2016
Mihriye Habermacher	1973	SP	Erstfeld	member	2016
Silvia Läubli Ziegler	1956	SP	Erstfeld	member	2016
Christian Schuler	1978	SVP	Erstfeld	member	2016
Pius Käslin	1960	FDP	Flüelen	member	2011
Christoph Schillig	1968	Green	Flüelen	District President	2012
Matthias Steinegger	1976	FDP	Flüelen	member	2012
Peter Tresch	1961	FDP	Göschenen	District Vice President	2008
Antonio Gamma	1969	FDP	Belt fasteners	member	2012
Bruno Christians	1965	FDP	Hospental	member	2015
Bernhard Walker	1956	CVP	Isenthal	member	2008
Georg Simmen	1974	FDP	Realp	member	2009
Vincent Arnold	1954	SVP	Schattdorf	member	2008
Ruedi Cathry	1968	FDP	Schattdorf	member	2012
Flavio Gisler	1989	CVP	Schattdorf	member	2012
Hans Gisler	1954	SVP	Schattdorf	member	2010
Alex Inderkum	1983	SP	Schattdorf	member	2012
Daniela Planzer	1965	CVP	Schattdorf	member	2012
Roland Poletti	1968	SVP	Schattdorf	member	2012
Cornelia Gamma	1969	FDP	Schattdorf	member	2016
Franz Christians	1952	CVP	Schattdorf	member	2016
Christian Arnold	1977	SVP	Seedorf UR	Group President (SVP)	2012
Andreas Bilger	1963	CVP	Seedorf UR	member	2012
Claudia Schuler Meili	1977	CVP	Seedorf UR	member	2012
Oswald Ziegler	1955	CVP	Seelisberg	member	2012
Marcel Bachmann	1970	FDP	Silenen	member	2016
Hansheiri Ziegler	1945	SVP	Silenen	member	2008
Rolf Jauch	1955	FDP	Silenen	member	2016
Elias Epp	1988	CVP	Silenen	member	2016
Theophil Zurfluh	1959	FDP	Sisikon	member	2012
Max Baumann	1944	SVP	Spiringen	member	2008
Hugo Forte	1954	CVP	Spiringen	member	2012
Martin Huser	1977	SVP	Undercutting	member	2012
Verena Walker	1956	CVP	Water	member	2012

The newly elected district administrator first met on June 8, 2016 for the constituent meeting.

Antonio Epp refused to accept the mandate. Therefore Marcel Bachmann moved up for him, who was sworn in on August 31st.

Franz-Xaver Arnold resigned from his position in April 2017. His successor, Elias Arnold, was sworn in on May 24, 2017.

Web links

• Website of the Uri District Administrator

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Canton Uri: national and cantonal elections since 1919. Federal Statistical Office, January 18, 2017, accessed on March 3, 2020 . 
2. ↑ http://ur.lexspider.com/html/1-1101.htm Uri Cantonal Constitution
3. ↑ http://www.ur.ch/de/aktuelles/abstimmungslösungen/
4. ↑ http://ur.lexspider.com/html/2-2251.htm Nebenamtsverordnung