Basel-Stadt or Basel-City is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of three municipalities with Basel as the capital. It is traditionally considered a "half-canton",the other half being Basel-Landschaft,its rural counterpart.
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the Waldstätte. Two important periods in the development of the Old Swiss Confederacy are summarized by the terms Acht Orte and Dreizehn Orte.
The Council of States is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland,and the lower house being the National Council. It comprises 46 members.
The Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland,Swiss Evangelical Party,or Evangelical Party of Switzerland is a Protestant Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland,active mainly in the Cantons of Bern,Basel-Land,Basel-Stadt,Aargau and Zürich. "Evangelical" translates as evangelisch,the German term for "Protestant",as opposed to "evangelical" as used in Anglo-Saxon Christianity.
The Green Liberal Party of Switzerland,is a green-liberal political party in Switzerland. Founded in 2007,the party holds eleven seats in the Federal Assembly as of the October 2023 election.
Filiz Polat is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens.
This local electoral calendar for the year 2010 lists the subnational elections held in 2010 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states. By-elections and sub-national referendums are also included.
Sibel Arslan is a Turkish-born Swiss lawyer and politician who currently serves on the National Council (Switzerland) for the movement BastA!. There she concurrently also is a representative to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2020. She previously served on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt between 2005 and 2016.
Maya Graf is a Swiss politician. She is a member of the Council of States from the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. From 2001 to 2019,she was a member of the National Council of Switzerland. From 2012 to 2013,she was the president of the council,the first member of the Green Party to hold that seat.
Regula Rytz is a Swiss historian and politician who served on the National Council (Switzerland) for the Green Party from 2011 to 2022. She concurrently served as co-president of the Green Party of Switzerland from 2012 to 2016 and as president from 2016 to 2020.
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 20 October 2019 to elect all members of both houses of the Federal Assembly. This was followed by the 2019 election to the Swiss Federal Council,the federal executive,by the United Federal Assembly.
Samira Marti is a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. She became a National Councillor in December 2018.
Sarah Wyss is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Since December 2020 she is a member of the National Council of Switzerland.
Céline Vara is a Swiss-Italian lawyer and politician of the Green Party of Switzerland (GPS). She is currently a member of the Council of States of Switzerland.
Anita Fetz is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a former member of the National Council and the Council of States in Switzerland.
Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter is a Swiss jurist and politician of The Centre.
An election for all seven members of the Federal Council,Switzerland's government,were held on 13 December 2023 for the 2024–2028 term. It followed the federal election held a month earlier and partly depended on its results.
Eric Nussbaumer is a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and member of the National Council,the lower chamber of the Swiss Parliament. He is the current President of the National Council.
