Swiss Federal Council Elections - Swiss Federal Council Election, Swiss Federal Council Election, 2007, Swiss Federal Council Election, 2009 (Paperback)

Chapters: Swiss Federal Council Election, Swiss Federal Council Election, 2007, Swiss Federal Council Election, 2009, Swiss Federal Council Election, 2008, Swiss Federal Council Election, 2006. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Swiss Federal Council is elected by the 246 members of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland by secret ballot. Regular elections take place every four years, in the first session following the Swiss federal elections. Additionally, an election is held to replace Federal Councillors who have announced their retirement or who have died in office. The procedure of the election is guided both by legal requirements set down in the Swiss Constitution, and by informal understandings between the major parties, such as the Zauberformel which describes a long-standing Concordance system in which the four major Swiss parties, the Free Democratic Party, the Christian Democratic People's Party and the Social Democratic Party, mutually concede the right to a representation in the Federal Council roughly corresponting to each party's ballot in the general election. The legal requirements for the election is in article 175 of the constitution and in articles 132f. of the parliamentary law of 2003. It is customary to confirm sitting councillors seeking re-election. Non-reelection of a candidate has occurred only four times in the history of the Swiss federal state, twice in the 19th century (Ulrich Ochsenbein 1854), Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel 1872) and twice in the 21st (Ruth Metzler-Arnold 2003, Christoph Blocher 2007). Councillors once elected have the right to serve their term and there is no mechanism by which the parliament could enforce their retirement. Each of the seven seats is subject to an individual election, held in sequen...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2061016