12.10.2007, 15:33
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| Newbie 1st class | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Cork Ireland
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| Re: Election Enlightment
Dear Reader I know it is not the simplest system of a democracy. But I think I am not able to understand the system of a different country anyway. I tried to understand the elections here in Ireland this spring but I couldn’t. There is a (I think) good translated homepage of the Swiss federal system in English. http://www.bk.admin.ch/dokumentation/02070/index.html?lang=en Hope that will help you a bit. Small summary is: Swiss citizen elect politicians into the National Council (Nationalrat) and Council of States (Staenderat). These two groups together are the United Federal Assembly. The UFA elects 7 politicians by the Magic Formula and then you have the Federal Council (Bundesrat). Every year there is a different politician from the Federal Council elected to be the president. And please write “National/ Staenderat” and not “-rad”. It has nothing to do with a bike. It comes from “beraten”.
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