Council of States Canton Zurich – Projection: GLP candidate Tiana Moser beckons victory – News

According to projections, the SVP cannot defend the civil seat. Gregor Rutz is likely to lose the duel.

Tiana Moser can keep the champagne cool. With the exception of the city of Zurich, all municipalities have been counted. And the GLP candidate is in the lead. According to cantonal projections, she should ultimately get over 200,000 votes.

Your opponent, SVP candidate Gregor Rutz, is currently far behind with 161,000 votes. He can no longer make up for this deficit. The Green Liberals are likely to win the seat of the resigned FDP Council of States member Ruedi Noser.

The previous SP Councilor of States Daniel Jositsch was elected in the first round. Gregor Rutz received the second most votes after him. With a difference of almost 35,000 votes, he clearly overtook the FDP candidate Regine Sauter. As a result, she took herself out of the race – “in favor of pooling civil forces”.

The only seat of the Council of States for the GLP

With Tiana Moser’s expected victory, an era will come to an end: For the first time in several decades, Zurich will no longer be represented by a bourgeois party in the Council of States. For the GLP, however, the referendum would be a great success: the Green Liberals are currently not represented in the Council of States in Switzerland. Tiana Moser’s victory would change this.

The Zurich GLP co-president Nicolas Forster is still cautious. “But the victory would of course be a sensation for us.” The duel between Moser and Rutz is reminiscent of 2007: Back then, GLP candidate Verena Diener won the fight for a seat in the Zurich Council of States against SVP politician Ueli Maurer.

In the current elections, Moser was supported by both her own party and left-wing parties. The Greens, for example, said they wanted to join forces to prevent a bourgeois seat in the Council of States. The EPP, the young center and the center women also supported Moser in the second round of voting.

Maurer, Blocher, Rutz: They all failed

The Zurich SVP has not been represented in the Council of States since 2007. Rutz wanted to achieve what several prominent figureheads before him had failed to do. Ueli Maurer, Christoph Blocher and Hans-Ueli Vogt were also unable to win a seat for the party. Now Rutz is also in danger of failing.

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Gregor Rutz has been a member of the National Council for the SVP for eleven years. The trained lawyer runs a consulting agency and lives in Zurich.

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In addition to his own party, he was supported in the election campaign by the FDP, the EDU, other middle-class politicians and government councilors as well as by the large business associations. However, the center and the FDP women had decided to allow voting. Rutz was apparently unable to convince the bourgeois camp sufficiently.

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