I can’t vote, because I’m not Swiss. But Claudia doesn’t care about politics, so I can propose something to her, which she then may or may not accept. I like the SmartVote website. There, candidates can answer questions about political issues, and citizens can do the same. The system then produces the list of candidates that seem to match your preferences best. Awesome. This is what it suggested for “Kreis 10”, and therefore the vote we’ll cast for the city council:
1. Angst Walter
2. Recher Anja
3. Schicker Daniela
4. Filli Peider C.
5. Girod Bastien
6. Stocker Monika
7. Waser Martin
8. Bütikofer Thomas
9. Luchsinger Martin Urs
For the community council, I got a mix between Alternative List, Greens, and Socialist Party. I took the Alternative List, and replaced all but four names on the list according to the smartvote.ch report:
1. Lanz Stefan
2. Zimmermann Markus
3. Loppacher Urs
4. Scheu Andreas
5. Gambacciani Claudia
6. Liniger Mark
7. Tinner Sandra
8. Brander Simone
9. Kälin Eva
10. Cerliani Pierino
11. Scheuch Doris
12. Bütikofer Kaspar
Eventhough I knew practically none of the candidates, I feel that at least I did not take an uninformed decision. At least my gut feeling we right in that I believed that AL and Grüne (Greens) were the parties that best represented my views, with the Socialists being close but too far to the center.
In Switzerland, the left is not left enough!
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