Russia-friendly Ständerat: these members voted in favour of Putin | Some of the Swiss sanctions against Russia are to be lifted if the small chamber of parliament has its way. Find out how the cantonal representatives voted here.
https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/wirtschaft/318290493-diese-staenderaete-sind-fuer-eine-lockerung-der-russland-sanktionen
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Not the whole article only the outcome of the vote:
>__The following minority of the small chamber of the Swiss parliament has spoken out (unsuccessfully) against weakening the sanctions:__
>__SP__
Baptiste Hurni (Neuenburg)
Pierre-Yves Maillard (Waadt)
Franziska Roth (Solothurn)
Carlo Sommaruga (Genf)
Simon Stocker (Schaffhausen)
Flavia Wasserfallen (Bern)
>__Grüne__
Maya Graf (Basel-Landschaft)
Céline Vara (Neuenburg)
>__Grünliberale__
Tiana Angelina Moser (Zürich)
>__Who voted in favour of Russia in the Council of States?__
>* ⛔️ These members of the Council of States were also against the motion calling on the federal government to consistently expel Russian and other foreign spies.
>* 💰 These members of the Council of States wanted to make savings rather than provide Ukraine with more financial support.
>__Die Mitte__
Beat Rieder (Wallis) ⛔️💰
Peter Hegglin (Zug) ⛔️💰
Fabio Regazzi (Tessin) ⛔️💰
Benedikt Würth (St.Gallen) ⛔️💰
Heidi Z’graggen (Uri) ⛔️💰
Marianne Binder-Keller (Aargau)
Isabelle Chassot (Freiburg)
Stefan Engler (Graubünden)💰
Erich Ettlin (Obwalden)💰
Daniel Fässler (Appenzell Innerrhoden)💰
Andrea Gmür-Schönenberger (Luzern)
Brigitte Häberli-Koller (Thurgau)
Charles Juillard (Jura)
Marianne Maret (Waadt)
>__FDP__
Pascal Broulis (Waadt) ⛔️💰
Damian Müller (Luzern) ⛔️💰
Petra Gössi (Schwyz) ⛔️💰
Benjamin Mühlemann (Glarus) ⛔️💰
Thierry Burkart (Aargau)💰
Andrea Caroni (Appenzell Ausserrhoden)💰
Josef Dittli (Uri)💰
Johanna Gapany (Freiburg)💰
Matthias Michel (Zug)💰
Martin Schmid (Graubünden)💰
Hans Wicki (Nidwalden)💰
>__SVP__
Marco Chiesa (Tessin)💰
Esther Friedli (St.Gallen)💰
Hannes Germann (Schaffhausen)💰
Werner Salzmann (Bern)💰
Pirmin Schwander (Schwyz)💰
Jakob Stark (Thurgau)💰
>__Grüne__
Mathias Zopfi (Glarus)
>__Mouvement Citoyens Genevois (MCG)__
Mauro Poggia (Genf) ⛔️💰
>__SP__
Daniel Jositsch (Zürich)
>Mitte Councillor of States Pirmin Bischof (💰) did not take part in the vote, according to the minutes.
>Eva Herzog (SP, Basel-Stadt) was not allowed to cast a vote anyway as President of the Council of States.
So I guess the takeaway here is that FDP and SVP don’t like foreigners unless they are russian spies.
Quite worrying.