La Revue

What best way to finish the year on a "best of". For the 111th time, here comes the annual "La Revue" at one of our theater. Last year, more than 40'000 people watched it - that is around 10% of the population. Huge success !!

So it is very important to appear in this spectacle, to have a sketch with one's character. There were so many highlights, so many jokes. A very good satyre of local and national politics as well as of some social events. Great laugh! Below, just a little banner taken from their website, with our president in the main role!

I also want to take the occasion to summarise the final results of our Parliamentary elections that were spread over several weeks, due to second rounds in many cantons. The results are the following per party, with first the number of seats in the National Council (200 seats) and second the number of seats in the Council of States (46 seats):

* Swiss People's Party (extreme right):

62 seats (+7) ; 7 seats (-1)

* Socialist Party (left):

43 seats (-9) ; 9 seats (=)

* Christian Democratic Party (centre):

31 seats (+3) ; 15 seats (=)

* Radical Democratic Party (right):

31 seats (-5) ; 12 seats (-2)

* Greens (left):

20 seats (+7) ; 2 seats (+2)

* others:

13 seats (-3) ; 1 seat (+1)

The participation rate was 48.9%. This is very low for national parliamentary elections compared to most countries, but for Swiss standards it is quite high and indeed the highest rate since 1983...! The linguistic minorities still represent 27% of total seats. The proportion of women has risen slightly to 27%. The average age of deputies is 52 years.