Swiss voters cast ballots to elect a parliament this weekend at a time when key concerns include rising healthcare costs, concerns about inflows of migrants and global warming, which has battered the country's Alpine glaciers.
FILE - Volunteers empty the ballot boxes at a polling station in Zurich, Switzerland, on Oct. 20 2019. On Sunday Oct. 22, 2023 Swiss voters elect the two houses of parliament, an exercise every four years that will ultimately shape the future composition of the Alpine country’s executive branch: The Federal Council. FILE - Swiss Federal President Alain Berset, front, attends an extraordinary session of the Federal Assembly in Bern, Switzerland, on April 11, 2023. On Sunday Oct.
Polls suggest that the Swiss have three main preoccupations in mind: Rising fees for the obligatory, free market-based health insurance system; climate change, which has eroded Switzerland’s numerous glaciers; and worries about migrants and immigration.
Berset, a Socialist, will be succeeded next year by centrist Viola Amherd. The four biggest parties are represented on the council, and they are the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, the Socialists, the free-market Liberals — each with two seats — and the Center party, with one. And if the Center party outscores the free-market Liberals, they could swipe one of the Liberals’ two seats on the council.
More broadly, Switzerland has found itself straddling two core elements to its psyche: Western democratic principles like those in the European Union – which Switzerland has refused to join — and its much vaunted “neutrality” in world affairs.
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