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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 big 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 right alliance sends Isabelle Moret (FDP), Frédéric Borloz (FDP), Michaël Buffat (SVP) and Valérie Dittli (middle) into the race. The left alliance is back with Nuria Gorrite (SP), Rebecca Ruiz (SP), Cesla Amarelle (SP) and Vassilis Venizelos (Greens).
The left, which has had the majority in the canton government for ten years, is trying to defend its four seats. However, she ran into trouble in the first ballot on March 20. None of the three previous Social Democratic ministers were elected.
Rights 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, ahead of her party colleagues Isabelle Moret and Frédéric Borloz.
After the first ballot, the left and the bourgeois alliance decided, without lengthy discussions, to nominate their candidates again. The other 16 applicants withdrew or missed the runoff because they failed to get at least 5 percent of the votes.
Four “geeks” for two seats
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.