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| Well it's 22.5% only swiss passport holders. There's a 4.5% difference in there with what you said. But anyway...
Undisputable, indeed. But look at this other undisputable fact: There's 7 council members, therefore two correspond to 28.5% of the total, one, to 14.25%. Given that people cannot be divided in pieces, then the closest corresponding share for the 24.5% total population living in romandie (or 22.5% of swiss passport holders, doesn't matter) is undisputably the 28.5% share, or two members. So nobody's doing a favour to romands, that's just an undisputable mathematics fact. Undisputably too, given the lac léman (even if it's just GE+VD without VS) population share (over 15%), one member should correspond to it, presumably one of the other romand currently in the council. | |
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The 22% used to be WITH foreigners and 18,5% without. Which shows a change within less than two decades which is surprising me heavily.
If you look into Wikip.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprachen_in_der_Schweiz
it is German 63,7%, F 20,4%, I 6,5%, R 0,5% . This is apparently without foreigners as it totals 90,9% . And with 20,4%, French is clearly 2% up from the 18,5% of about 1970 to 1990 . Italian in fact also has increased as it used to be LESS than 6% (some 5,5%) without .
If the foreigners are included, it will of course get F up to 24 to 25%, and I up to 8 to 9%, and G down to 61 to 62, leaving R with 0,5% and 3,5 to 6,5% for the rest.
You cannot divide persons ? Mrs Sommaruga is in the Council representing Bern but is out of a well known Ticino family, and Mrs Widmer-Schlumpf from Graubünden by representing her Canton also represents the Romansh-speakers and in a way the Italian speakers as well. Mr Deiss was a German speaker but from Freiburg/Fribourg and had made his career in the French area of his Canton and so was a Diphtonge, which means a 50/50
Alright, let's concede that Mr Burkhalter not only is a citizen of Neuchâtel/Neuenburg but also of Sumiswald, deep in the Bernese Emmenthal
and Mr Berset speaks so excellently German, that he also in a certain way is a "diphtonge". So that in reality everybody except those Baslers can be happy ! Don't you feel pity for the poor lot ? In between 1848 and 1950 they not only lost the Capital race against Bern, but the rank of the largest and economically most potent metropolis to Zurich. And in the recent half-century they even moved back to rank 3 behind the Geneva/Vaud region
Interestingly, towns also change. Biel-Bienne and Murten-Morat which were G/F 60:40 in the 1960ies are now said to be G/F 75:25 now while the areas of the Canton of Jura which in "Bernese" times had a considerable share of German speakers are increasingly 98%plus French speaking. You can find areas where the change-over is gradual and soft, and areas like the Muntelier/German-speaking - LeLanderon/French-speaking place where the language border is knife sharp. One point for the Romands, as Muntelier is boring while Le Landeron is nice !
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