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- The canton of Basel-Stadt wants two seats in the Council of States and thus be upgraded to a full seat.
- The Basel cantonal parliament has referred a corresponding initiative from the Green Liberals to the government.
- The Basel-Landschaft parliament will also address the issue on Thursday.
After a lengthy debate in which the opposition spoke out, the council voted 53 votes to 32 with 10 abstentions in favor of transferring the professional initiative. The GLP’s professional initiative is based on a postulate from the Basel-City GLP National Councilor Katja Christ with the same content. However, the Federal Council has already expressed its negative opinion on this initiative.
The opponents of the proposal from the ranks of the FDP, the liberal LDP, SVP and the Green Alternative Alliance (GAB) argued that the initiative had no chance. “We are politicizing here purely for the gallery,” said SVP Grand Councilor Joël Thüring.
No strengthening of urban Switzerland
FDP Grand Councilor David Jenny, together with Oliver Thommen from the GAB, pointed out that the two Basels could not insist on an increase in their class votes alone. But if the two Appenzell as well as Obwalden and Nidwalden could now increase their representation in the Council of States, the strengthening of urban Switzerland hoped for in the initiative text would no longer be far off.
The applicant Claudia Baumgartner (GLP), together with interim government president Lukas Engelberger (center), pointed out that ultimately it was about the principle of eliminating the under-representation of the Basel-Stadt state and not already looking at possible consequences .
SRF 4 News, February 7, 2024, 8:00 p.m.; sda/schn;sibl
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