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Federal Assembly




  • Bundesversammlung  (German)


  • Assemblée fédérale  (French)


  • Assemblea federale  (Italian)


  • Assamblea federala  (Romansh)



Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type

Bicameral
Houses
Council of States
National Council
Leadership
President of the National Council

Jürg Stahl, SVP/UDC
President of the Council of States

Raphaël Comte, FDP.The Liberals
Structure
Seats
246
200 National Council
46 Council of States
Swiss Federal Apportionment Diagram.svg

National Council political groups


  •      SVP/UDC 65


  •      SP/PS 43


  •      FDP/PLR 33


  •      CVP/PPC 27


  •      Greens (GPS/PES) 11


  •      BDP/PBD 7


  •      glp/pvl 7


  •      EvP/PEV 2


  •      LT 2


  •      PdA/PST-POP/PC 1


  •      MCG 1
Council of States (Switzerland) Nov 2015.svg

Council of States political groups


  •      CVP/PPC 13


  •      FDP/PLR 13


  •      SP/PS 12


  •      SVP/UDC 5


  •      BDP/PBD 1


  •      Greens (GPS/PES) 1


  •      Independent 1
Elections

National Council last election
 18 October 2015

Council of States last election
 18 October, 15 and 22 November 2015
Meeting place
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Federal Palace of Switzerland, Bern
Website
www.parliament.ch

The Federal Assembly (German: Bundesversammlung, French: Assemblée fédérale, Italian: Assemblea federale, Romansh: Assamblea federala) is Switzerland's federal legislature. It meets in Bern in the Federal Palace.


The Federal Assembly is bicameral, being composed of the 200-seat National Council and the 46-seat Council of States. The houses have identical powers. Members of both houses represent the cantons, but, whereas seats in the National Council are distributed in proportion to population, each canton has two seats in the Council of States, except the six 'half-cantons', which have one seat each. Both are elected in full once every four years, with the last election being held in 2015.


The Federal Assembly possesses the federal government's legislative power, along with the separate constitutional right of citizen's initiative. For a law to pass, it must be passed by both houses. The Federal Assembly may come together as a United Federal Assembly in certain circumstances, such as to elect the Federal Council (the head of government and state), the Federal Chancellor, the federal judges or a general (only in times of great national danger).




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Composition


    • 2.1 United Federal Assembly




  • 3 Groups


  • 4 See also


  • 5 Notes and references


  • 6 Bibliography


  • 7 External links





History


The Federal Assembly was created in 1848, with the rise of Switzerland as a federal state. The previous central institution was the Federal Diet of Switzerland.



Composition


The Federal Assembly is made up of two chambers:



  • the National Council, with 200 seats

  • the Council of States, with 46 councillors.


Seats in the National Council are allocated to the cantons proportionally, based on population. In the Council of States, every canton has two seats (except for the former "half-cantons", which have one seat each).



United Federal Assembly


On occasions the two houses sit jointly as the "United Federal Assembly" (German: Vereinigte Bundesversammlung, French: Assemblée fédérale, Chambres réunies, Italian: Assemblea federale plenaria, Romansh: Assamblea federala plenara). This is done to:



  • elect members of the Federal Council, the Federal Chancellor, the federal judges or a general (only in times of great national danger)

  • arbitrate in the event of conflicts between federal authorities;

  • issue pardons; or

  • listen to special announcements


The United Federal Assembly is presided by the National Council's presidency.


The Federal Assembly also confirms the appointment of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (appointed by the Federal Council).[1]



Groups






























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Parties can cooperate in groups, allowing smaller parties access to rights as part of a caucus. These groups must have at least five members and must be maintained across both chambers.[2] Being a member of a formal group gives members the right to sit on committees, and those that aren't members can't speak in most debates. Each group receives a fixed allowance of CHF[clarification needed]112,000, whilst each member of a group also receives an additional CHF20,800 a year each.[2][unreliable source?]


Since March 2009, there have been six groups in the Federal Assembly.
The latest group to form was the Conservative Democratic Party which split off the Swiss People's Party in 2008.
The Christian Democrats/EPP/glp Group (CEg) was formed after the 2007 elections, out of the former Christian Democratic (C) and EPP (E) groups.
The current FTP/Liberal group (RL) was formed in 2003 out of the former FDP (R) and Liberal (L) groups; since the 2009 fusion of the Free Democrati and Liberal Parties, RL is once again a single-party group. In 2011, the CEg was disbanded, the Green Liberals formed their own parliamentary group (GL) and the three Christian parties formed the Christian-Evangelical Group (CE).


Currently (for the legislative period of 2015 - 2019), the seven parliamentary groups are composed as follows[3]:






































































































Group
 Parties
 NC
 CS
 Total
People's parliamentary group (V)

Swiss People's Party
 65
 5
 74


Ticino League
 2
 0


Geneva Citizens' Movement
 1
 0


Independent
 0
 1
Social Democrats parliamentary group (S)

Social Democratic Party
 43
 12
 55
FDP.The Liberals parliamentary group (RL)

FDP.The Liberals
 33
 13
 46
Christian-Evangelical parliamentary group (CE)

Christian Democratic People's Party
 27
 13
 43


Evangelical People's Party
 2
 0


Christian Social Party
 1
 0
Green parliamentary group (G)

Green Party
 11
 1
 13


Swiss Party of Labour
 1
 0
BDP parliamentary group (BD)

Conservative Democratic Party
 7
 1
 8
Green Liberal parliamentary group (GL)

Green Liberal Party
 7
 0
 7


See also



  • Swiss federal election, 2015

  • Swiss federal election, 2011

  • Swiss federal election, 2007

  • Hotel Bellevue Palace

  • Federal Diet of Switzerland



Notes and references





  1. ^ Federal Act on Data Protection of 19 June 1992 (status as of 1 January 2014), Federal Chancellery of Switzerland (page visited on 18 September 2016).


  2. ^ ab Swiss Confederation (2010), p. 36


  3. ^ "Parliamentary groups". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2017-05-28..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}




Bibliography



  • Federal Chancellor Corina Casanova, ed. (28 April 2015), The Swiss Confederation – A Brief Guide 2015, Berne, Switzerland: Swiss Federal Chancellery FCh of the Swiss Confederation, archived from the original (PDF) on 21 January 2016, retrieved 4 January 2016


External links



  • Official website


  • Federal Assembly in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.














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