Fresh faces, old formula: Swiss government gets new ministers
Switzerland got two new cabinet members on Wednesday. How does the seven-member government work, and what is the ‘magic formula’ that determines who gets to be in it? Swiss parliamentarians gathered in Bern this morning to choose two new members of the country’s consensus ‘Federal Council’. On January 1, 2022, outgoing ministers Ueli Maurer and Simonetta Sommaruga will be replaced by the Swiss People’s Party’s Albert Rösti and the Social Democratic Party’s Elisabeth Baume-Schneider – the latter... Читать дальше...