Published on October 5, 2024 at 08:44. / Modified on October 5, 2024 at 08:45.
The man has just put his envelope in the ballot box on this Friday morning at the end of September. In Switzerland, the scene seems banal. However, in Veysonnaz, a small town of around 600 inhabitants which overlooks Sion on the left bank of the Rhône, it is exceptional. For the first time in more than half a century, the citizens of the municipality must make a choice in view of the municipal elections, which will take place on October 13.
“We don’t know how to do it anymore,” laughs a woman sitting at a table in a bar in the resort, at aperitif time. This year, two lists of three candidates each are seeking the five seats of the municipal executive. A situation which has not arisen since 1972. Over the last fifty-two years, only a list of five candidates was proposed for the municipal elections. Until 2008, voters still had to go to the ballot box to validate the composition of their executive. The few pencil strokes defined a classification of no real value. Since that date, the population no longer even needed to do so; the election was tacit.
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