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Karin Keller-Sutter will be Federal President in 2025
The finance minister achieved a below-average result in the election.
Published today at 2:22 p.m
With the election of Keller-Sutter, the presidencies of the Federal Council and both chambers of parliament will be in liberal hands next year.
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Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter will be Federal President next year. Parliament elected the liberal from St. Gallen on Wednesday with 168 of 203 valid votes. This is a below-average result.
Of the 232 ballots cast, 23 were inserted blank and 6 were invalid. 35 votes did not go to the 60-year-old finance minister, but to other people.
Although election to the Federal Presidency is considered a formality, council members often use it to express their displeasure or approval to members of the government. On average over the past ten years, the federal presidents received 178 votes from parliament.
However, before Keller-Sutter, Viola Amherd (center), Alain Berset (SP) and Ignazio Cassis (FDP) also had below-average results. The best result in recent decades was achieved by SVP Federal Councilor Ueli Maurer in 2018 with 201 votes, the worst by Micheline Calmy-Rey (SP) in 2011 with 106 votes.
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