- Pierre Maude is about to return to the Geneva cantonal government.
- After counting the letter votes, he finished sixth.
- The left loses its majority.
Accordingly, he finished sixth with 1,331 votes, ahead of Democratic Socialist Carol Ann Kast.
In the canton of Geneva, twelve candidates stood again on the second ballot for the seven seats in the Council of State. Among them were former FDP state councilor Pierre Maude, four Red and Green candidates, and a five-party ticket from the centre-right coalition.
According to SRF correspondent Andreas Studli, there are two surprises: “The first surprise is the good result of Pierre Maude: although he competed alone between coalitions of left and right, he finished sixth according to provisional results.” Votes cast are counted by letter which, according to experience, equals 95 percent of the vote.
Middle candidate Delphine Bachmann pulled off the second surprise: she came only ninth on the first ballot, and now she’s fifth.
At the top are FDP candidates Natalie Fontanet and Anne Hiltbold, followed by former PSG state councilor Thierry Abotelouz and Green Antonio Hodgers. The central candidate follows Bachmann, while the Socialist Party’s candidate, Carol-Anne Kast, is seventh.
Currently in just eighth place, more than 2,000 votes behind Pierre Maude, is former economic director Fabian Fischer of the Green Party. It cannot be ruled out that she can still catch up with the latest results. It is also clear that there is a majority of women in the Geneva cantonal government for the first time.
The centre-right coalition was not convincing
According to the populist right-wing MCG, the merger of the bourgeois parties in the second round of the Geneva government elections failed. The party that put Philip Morel in the elections to the State Council lost its seat in the executive branch. SVP didn’t manage to move back in.
“The Geneva coalition has not worked well,” said François Bertchy, president of the MCG. “This is a failed act to have a strong government.” He felt that the “Geneva Alliance”, which was decided the day after the first ballot, had started too late. “We have to draw conclusions and see if this alliance can be renewed in the future,” said Mauro Poggia, the current Council of State of the MCG, who decided not to run for re-election.
The participation rate in Geneva was 40.27 percent.
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