- Mauro Poggia from the civil protest party Mouvement citoyens genevois (MCG) now represents the canton of Geneva in the Council of States.
- The previous SP Councilor of States Carlo Sommaruga was re-elected.
- The previous State Councilor Lisa Mazzone (Greens) has been voted out. This means the Greens will lose their professional representation.
Lisa Mazzone wants to withdraw from politics after being voted out. “I will let my convictions live on elsewhere, in other ways,” said the former Green Party Councilor of States. Mazzone came third in the runoff. The 35-year-old politician experienced her first political defeat.
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Lisa Mazzone is disappointed: “We are represented by two 64-year-old men. “This is a decision by Geneva that I can only regret,” she told the media.
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In the established parties, two duos faced each other. The civil alliance (FDP, Center, SVP and MCG) sent MCG politician Mauro Poggia and SVP National Councilor Céline Amaudruz into the race. The pair ran against the previous Lisa Mazzone from the Greens and Carlo Sommaruga from the SP. The aim of the bourgeois alliance was to overthrow the red-green duo.
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The winners of the runoff election in the canton of Geneva: the previous SP Council of States Carlo Sommaruga (left) and the newly elected Mauro Poggia (MCG).
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Poggia’s competitor, 44-year-old SVP National Councilor Céline Amaudruz, came in fourth place. These results show that the new MCG-SVP ticket did not convince all middle-class voters.
But for Poggia the calculation worked out: “You have to recognize that the legal alliance sealed for this election worked well,” he said. Since his party has no national base, the MCG politician has to join an existing faction, just like his party colleagues in the National Council.
At 37.1 percent, voter turnout was lower than in the first round of voting on October 22nd at 40.8 percent.
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On October 22, 2023, Geneva voters will elect their representatives in the National Council and the Council of States. Here you will find an overview with background information and assessments.