Cantonal elections The left regains majority in the Neuchâtel government
The Neuchâtel government once again has a left-wing majority. Céline Vara, member of the Council of States for the Greens, is joining the cantonal government. Neither the left nor the conservatives want a second round of voting.
24.03.2025, 11:31
24.03.2025, 12:15
SDA
Following the left-wing alliance (SP, Greens, Labor Party), the bourgeois alliance (FDP, SVP, center) has also decided not to hold a second round of elections for the State Council, as Niels Rosselet-Christ, President of the Neuchâtel SVP, told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Monday. Previously, the left had already announced its decision "not to call a second round".
The united left has thus achieved its goal of regaining the majority in the five-member State Council that it lost to the FDP in 2021. The government now consists of two Social Democrats, one representative of the Greens and two Free Democrats.
The previous SP members of the State Council, Frédéric Mairy and Florence Nater, were elected in the first round of voting on Sunday. Laurent Favre and Crystel Graf, the former members of the government from the Free Alliance, missed out on an absolute majority and finished in third and fifth place respectively. Vara from the Greens finished in fourth place.
The three other candidates from the conservative alliance, Quentin Di Meo (FDP), Thierry Brechbühler (SVP) and Manon Freitag (center), only came eighth, ninth and tenth.
