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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  1. BezugssystemCH1903 on

    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.

  2. So I guess the takeaway here is that FDP and SVP don’t like foreigners unless they are russian spies.