State Councilor Céline Vara is a candidate for the Neuchâtel State Council. She was designated on Saturday during the general assembly of the Greens to appear on the list of the United Left with Christine Ammann Tschopp.
The 80 members of the general assembly had to decide between three candidates who competed for two places on the ticket. In addition to the senator and the former president of the party, Chaux-de-Fonnier Cyril Tissot had made himself available to the Neuchâtel Greens, they recalled on Saturday in a press release.
These two appointments come the day after those of the Socialists. Meeting in Congress, the Neuchâtel Socialist Party on Friday designated outgoing State Councilors Florence Nater and Frédéric Mairy to appear on the list of the United Left for the cantonal elections in March 2025.
This list of the left will include, in addition to the socialist and Green candidates, the POP representative Sarah Blum. The objective of this alliance is to recover the left-wing majority in the Neuchâtel Council of State.
Block on the right
Two blocs will clash during the government election, because the right has also decided on an alliance. The joint list will include the two outgoing PLR state councilors Laurent Favre and Crystel Graf, the head of the PLR group at the Grand Council Quentin Di Meo, the UDC municipal councilor of La Chaux-de-Fonds Thierry Brechbühler and the deputy for the Center Manon Freitag.
This alliance did not please Center MP Blaise Fivaz, who announced Tuesday evening that he was joining the Vert’libéral party (PVL). The latter, who considers himself to be the “only centrist party in Neuchâtel”, will choose his ticket for the Council of State on December 10.
