{"id":126282,"date":"2026-09-05T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/126282\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:11:10","slug":"swiss-centre-party-eyes-another-seat-in-government-as-2027-elections-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/126282\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Centre Party eyes another seat in government as 2027 elections loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/c06e6f7e70d81f5b1566ec6493fa9ff8348076ec-92009566.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"The Swiss Centre wants to make its presence felt more strongly on the political scene\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                The Swiss Centre wants to make its presence felt more strongly on the political scene            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        The Swiss Centre Party has launched its campaign for the 2027 federal elections. At its delegates\u2019 assembly on Saturday in canton Fribourg, the party set out its ambition to secure a second seat on the Federal Council.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        September 5, 2026 &#8211; 12:26\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to become strong enough, through our own efforts, to ensure that our call for a second seat on the Federal Council becomes a matter of course,\u201d the party\u2019s president, Philipp Matthias Bregy, told delegates. The Centre intends to campaign for this goal by emphasising its unique characteristics, without copying any other political party.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b76ef8f69859b380708b04c6443ef325-186405683_highres-data.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" alt=\"person observes a graph with parliamentary seats\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss Politics\n        <\/p>\n<p>        The Swiss parliament for beginners    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        May 24, 2023                    <\/p>\n<p>                Here is a crash course on how the 175-year-old Swiss parliament works.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/politics\/the-swiss-parliament-for-beginners\/48536400\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: The Swiss parliament for beginners<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Bregy, The Centre is well placed to address the public\u2019s concerns. \u201cLet us not leave issues such as security, migration, purchasing power, healthcare or intergenerational fairness to the political extremes,\u201d said the parliamentarian, who expects his party to make gains in autumn 2027, when voters will elect new federal representatives.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bregy, The Centre must adopt a more proactive stance and position itself as a strong, independent political force at the centre of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How we produce news in English<\/a><br \/>Translated from French, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a>\u00a0journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swiss Centre wants to make its presence felt more strongly on the political scene Keystone-SDA The Swiss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,5461,326,100,69,103,3381,41,9235,17],"class_list":["post-126282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-swiss-democracy","tag-beat-swiss-politics","tag-latest-news","tag-politics","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-society","tag-swiss","tag-swissmade","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117218134441772262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}