District Administrator (Nidwalden)
The district administrator is the cantonal parliament and thus the legislative and supreme authority of the Swiss canton of Nidwalden . It meets in the district council chamber of the town hall in Stans and is the direct supervisory authority for the government council , the cantonal administration, the higher and administrative courts. The 60 MPs are elected by the people for four years. Together they decide on legislation, access to concordats , financial and real estate transactions. Around ten meetings are held each year. The seating arrangement is in accordance with the residential communities divided the deputies. The last general renewal election took place on March 4, 2018 for the legislative period from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2022.
tasks
Basic information on the structure and functions of the district administrator can be found in the constitution of the canton of Nidwalden from Article 57ff.
At the beginning of a year in office, the district administrator elects the members of the district administrator's office from among its members. These are the president of the district administrator, his deputy (vice-president), the two tellers and a deputy teller. These offices are always valid for one year and are then filled. The tradition has developed that the vice-president is elected president, the first teller is elected vice-president, the second teller is elected as the first teller and the deputy teller is elected as the second teller. Only the office of the deputy teller is usually occupied by a member of the district administrator who has not yet been represented in the district office. The person who held the office of President can no longer be re-elected for this office.
In addition, the district administrator elects the mayor and his representative, the governor from among the government council, for a period of one year. Here, too, the re-election of the previous governor is not possible and the previous governor is usually elected as his successor.
The presidents and other members of the Supreme Court, the Cantonal Court and the Administrative Court are also elected by the District Administrator. The rule here is that these elections may only be held two years after the general election of the district administrator and the government council. This will be the case again in July 2016.
The district administrator is responsible for the enactment of laws, as well as for the approval of inter-cantonal agreements. It is also the task of the district administrator to decide whether motions or counter-proposals received from the people are constitutional. The district administrator is responsible for explaining constitutional and legal texts in a fundamental way, but not in a case pending before a court. The district administrator may pass resolutions on expenditure that it has been authorized to make by law at cantonal and federal level; In the case of freely definable one-off expenses, the District Administrator may decide up to a sum of 5 million francs; in the case of annually recurring expenses, the decision limit is 500,000 francs.
Parties
In the elections from 1943 to 2018, the participating parties achieved the following number of seats.
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Members
eligibility
Due to the separation of powers, members of the district administrator may not belong to any cantonal court. Members of the government council are also excluded from membership in the district administration.
It is true that the cantonal constitution stipulates that in cantonal and communal authorities, spouses and (registered) partners may not be members at the same time; The same applies to direct relatives and by-laws as well as to siblings. However, district administrators and municipal parliaments are exempt from this rule.
The law on proportional representation of the District Administrator sets the date of the general renewal election to be between February 15 and April 15 of the year in which the current term of office ends. The election date is set by the government council in October of the previous year.
Number and distribution among the constituencies
The number of members is set at 60 in the cantonal constitution. Each of the eleven municipalities forms its own constituency for the elections; the number of MPs per constituency relates to the number of inhabitants, which was determined as of December 31, two years before the election; however, each constituency is entitled to at least two seats in parliament. The election takes place according to a proportional system , since 2014 the allocation of seats has been based on the double Pukelsheim system. Each voter (active citizen) has as many votes as there are MPs for his constituency.
The allocation of mandates to the constituencies is always made by government council resolution in the year before the election, most recently on March 20, 2013.
The current distribution looks like this:
| local community | Population (2012) | District Councilors (2014-2018) | Population (2008) | District Councilors (2010-2014) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stans | 8013 | 12 | 7775 | 11 |
| Ennetmoos | 2080 | 3 | 2035 | 3 |
| Dallenwil | 1777 | 3 | 1771 | 3 |
| Stansstad | 4401 | 6th | 4460 | 6th |
| Oberdorf | 3104 | 4th | 3133 | 5 |
| Buochs | 5385 | 8th | 5296 | 8th |
| Ennetbürgen | 4464 | 6th | 4259 | 6th |
| Wolf shooting | 2074 | 3 | 2018 | 3 |
| Beckenried | 3314 | 5 | 3227 | 5 |
| Hergiswil | 5438 | 8th | 5402 | 8th |
| Emmetten | 1321 | 2 | 1215 | 2 |
compensation
The remuneration of the district council members is regulated in the law on the compensation of the authorities (compensation law).
Each member of the district council receives an annual lump sum of CHF 5,000 for participating in district council meetings and studying files. In addition, the District President is entitled to a further CHF 10,000 per year, of which CHF 2,500 is a flat-rate expense allowance; for the district vice-president, Fr. 2000.- or Fr. 500.- apply. In addition, there are expenses reimbursements for all members of the district council of CHF 330 per year.
District administrators who sit on commissions receive an attendance fee of CHF 160 for a half-day meeting; If the meeting lasts less than two hours, this rate is reduced to CHF 80; the commission presidents receive a surcharge of 50% of the attendance fee, but at least CHF 80 per meeting.
Members of the District Council 2014–2018
The current district administrator, who will be in office until the end of June 2018, is composed as follows (as of August 15, 2016):
- On November 10, 2014, Philipp Niederberger announced his immediate resignation from the district administrator. The obligation of his successor, Karin Costanzo-Grob, took place on February 4, 2015
- At the end of February 2016, Rochus Odermatt resigned from his position as he no longer lives in the canton of Nidwalden. Daniel Niederberger was sworn in as his successor on May 25, 2016.
Members of the District Council 2018–2022
In the district elections on March 4, 2018, several previous members no longer stood. A total of 39 previous members made it through to re-election. Previous members of the district administrator who missed re-election were among the candidacies. These are Albert Frank in Buochs, Sepp Odermatt in Emmetten, Markus Landolt in Ennetbürgen, Martin Blättler and Ruedi Waser in Hergiswil and Stefan Hurschler in Oberdorf. A total of 21 (35%) of the members are new to the district administrator. According to gender, there are 47 men and 13 women. The oldest member of the district administrator was born in 1948, the youngest in 1992.
The district administrator elected on March 4, 2018, will meet from July 1, 2018. It will have the following members:
Elected by gender and age in 2018
| Age group | male | Female | Total | proportion of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 to 29 years | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3.33% |
| 30 to 39 years | 5 | 0 | 5 | 8.33% |
| 40 to 49 years | 14th | 5 | 19th | 31.67% |
| 50 to 59 years | 18th | 7th | 25th | 41.67% |
| 60 to 69 years | 8th | 0 | 8th | 13.33% |
| 70 to 79 years | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.67% |
| TOTAL | 47 | 13 | 60 | 100% |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Canton Nidwalden: national and cantonal elections since 1919. Federal Statistical Office, March 5, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Cantonal constitution of Nidwalden
- ^ Law on the proportional representation of the District Administrator Nidwalden
- ↑ Government council resolution on the number of members of the district administrator to be elected in each political municipality ( memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ navigator.ch
- ↑ Elected and non-elected in the district elections 2018
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