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Eight candidates are fighting for six seats. The bourgeois alliance could put an end to the red-green majority.
Will the bourgeois alliance succeed in overthrowing the left-wing majority in the Vaud government? That is the central question in today’s second ballot of the State Council elections.
After only the FDP politician Christelle Luisier Brodard was elected in the first ballot, eight candidates are fighting for the remaining six seats in the runoff. The left, which has had the majority in the canton government for ten years, is trying to defend its four seats. In the first ballot on March 20, none of the three previous social democratic state councilors were elected.
77 percent of the ballots counted
After counting 77 percent of the ballot papers, the two FDP candidates, Frédéric Borloz and Isabelle Moret, are ahead, followed by the two previous SP state councilors Nuria Gorrite and Rebecca Ruiz. Valérie Dittli (middle) is in fifth place. Michaël Buffat (SVP) takes sixth place. Behind him are Vassilis Venizelos (Greens) and Cesla Amarelle (SP).
SRF correspondent Rolf Dietrich is more likely to expect a middle-class majority in a ratio of 4:3 and hardly 5:2 as after the first ballot. “The center candidate Valérie Dittli from the bourgeois alliance has not yet held any political office and if she were elected she would not have her own parliamentary group in the Grand Council because the center is not represented in the cantonal parliament of Vaud. The choice of the 29-year-old Zugerin would be a medium sensation. »
The chance for three left-wing government seats is intact, because the SP has started with three previous women. But Education Director Amarelle Cesla is threatened with being voted out, she is in last place.
Citizens in a better starting position
The bourgeois alliance was able to record its first success in the first ballot. The liberal Christelle Luisier, who had moved up during the 2020 legislative period, was the only candidate to achieve an absolute majority with 113 more votes.
Experts agree that Isabelle Moret (FDP), Frédéric Borloz (FDP), Nuria Gorrite (SP) and Rebecca Ruiz (SP) should make the election without any major worries.
In the last two seats out of seven, there will be a battle between the “outsiders” Cesla Amarelle (SP), Vassilis Venizelos (Greens), Michaël Buffat (SVP) and Valérie Dittli (centre). These four candidates were only about 3,000 votes apart in the first ballot.
There could also be a neck-and-neck race between Green Party candidate Venizelos and SVP’s Buffat. But a survey from last week sees the young politician Dittli with 46 percent of the votes, closely followed by Amarelle (44 percent), Venizelos (42 percent) and Buffat (39 percent). A choice of the 29-year-old native of Zug Dittli would be a surprise in the canton of Vaud.