Cantonal elections BS Left-wing Greens want a government council majority back in Basel-Stadt

The SP, Greens and Basta want to win back the majority in the government they lost four years ago in the general elections in Basel on October 20. In addition to the three incumbents from the SP, the former alliance partners Greens and Basta are now entering the race separately.

The government council majority was lost in the last elections in 2020 after 16 years when the GLP ousted the Greens. And the parties now want to regain it. With the three incumbents from the SP, Tanja Soland, Kaspar Sutter and Mustafa Atici, as well as Anina Ineichen as the Green candidate and Oliver Bolliger from the left-wing party Basta.

The claim to fill five out of seven seats on the cantonal government may be somewhat ambitious, as the representatives of the party presidencies admitted. "Of course, all five would be the best for our politics," said Basel SP President Lisa Mathis: "But we want to offer the electorate a choice."