The climate alliance in the Zurich cantonal council can only defend its majority by a hair’s breadth. This has a signal effect for the autumn.
The poor performance of the Greens causes headaches for the party president Balthasar Glättli (left) and the re-elected government councilor Martin Neukom.
In nine out of ten cases over the past twenty years, Zurich party trends have anticipated those in Switzerland. In particular, how the big parties will fare in the fall can usually be predicted. That’s how it was four years ago, when the SVP did poorly in Zurich, while the Greens and GLP made big gains. This pattern was repeated a few months later in the National Council elections.