Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet,is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of five districts and its capital city is Liestal. It is traditionally considered a "half-canton",the other half being Basel-Stadt,its urban counterpart.
Basel-Stadt or Basel-City is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of three municipalities with Basel as the capital. It is traditionally considered a "half-canton",the other half being Basel-Landschaft,its rural counterpart.
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the Waldstätte. Two important periods in the development of the Old Swiss Confederacy are summarized by the terms Acht Orte and Dreizehn Orte.
Emil Johann Rudolf Frey was a Swiss politician,Union Army soldier in the American Civil War and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1890–1897). He served as President of the Swiss Confederation in 1894.
The Republic and Canton of Jura,less formally the Canton of Jura or Canton Jura,is the newest of the 26 Swiss cantons,located in the northwestern part of Switzerland. The capital is Delémont. It shares borders with the canton of Basel-Landschaft,the canton of Bern,the canton of Neuchatel,the canton of Solothurn,and the French régions of Bourgogne-Franche-Comtéand Grand Est.
The Council of States is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland,with the National Council being the lower house. It comprises 46 members.
Same-sex marriage in Switzerland has been legal since 1 July 2022. Legislation to open marriage to same-sex couples passed the Swiss Parliament in December 2020. The law was challenged in a referendum on 26 September 2021 by opponents of same-sex marriage and was approved with the support of 64% of voters and a majority in all 26 cantons. The law went into force on 1 July 2022. A provision of the law permitting same-sex marriages performed abroad to be recognised in Switzerland took effect on 1 January 2022.
The Green Liberal Party of Switzerland,abbreviated to glp,is a centrist green-liberal political party in Switzerland. Founded in 2007,the party holds sixteen seats in the Federal Assembly as of the October 2019 election.
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf is a Swiss politician and lawyer who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2008 to 2015. A member of the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) until 2008,she has since then been a member of the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD). Widmer-Schlumpf was the head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police from 2008 to 2010,when she became head of the Federal Department of Finance. She served as President of the Swiss Confederation in 2012.
The Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland was a political party in Switzerland from 2008 to 2020. After the 2019 federal election,the BDP had three members in the National Council.
Cannabis in Switzerland is illegal,though minor possession was decriminalized to a fine in 2012. Several cantons began to allow adults to cultivate and use cannabis in 2012,but this was struck down by federal courts. In 2016,four cities stated they were looking into establishing pilot cannabis clubs. The number of cannabis users in Switzerland is estimated to be around 500,000 among a population of 8 million.
Women in Switzerland gained the right to vote in federal elections after a referendum in February 1971. The first federal vote in which women were able to participate was the 31 October 1971 election of the Federal Assembly. However it was not until a 1990 decision by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland that women gained full voting rights in the final Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.
Emmi Zeulner is a German politician who represents the Christian Social Union (CSU) in the Bundestag,the German federal parliament.
Sibel Arslan is a Swiss lawyer and politician of the party BastA!.
Lisa Mazzone is a prominent Green Party politician in Switzerland. She was elected to the Swiss parliament on 18 October 2015,becoming Switzerland's youngest member of parliament in the process. Most of her political interventions to date have involved environmental issues.
Marina Carobbio Guscetti is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP/PS) of which she has been the vice-chairwoman since 1 March 2008. She was the president of the National Council in 2018–2019 and became a Councillor of States in December 2019.
Susanne Leutenegger Oberholzer is a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. She was a National Councillor from 1987 to 1991,then again from 1999 to 2018.
Anita Fetz is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a former member of the National Council and the Council of States in Switzerland.
Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter is a Swiss jurist and politician of The Centre.
Florence Brenzikofer is a politician of the Green Party of Switzerland who has been a member of the National Council since 2019.
