Geneva elections, Socialists lose seat
Update 15:40 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Cantonal elections in Geneva for the executive council, the Conseil d’état, confirmed a rightward shift in the political mood, Sunday 15 November. The centre-right alliance won four of the seven seats, while the centre-left won three. Two women are on the council, and extremists on either side of the spectrum were eliminated.
On the centre-right: the Radical party’s François Longchamp, Christian Democrat Pierre-François Unger and the Liberal party’s Mark Muller were re-elected. They were joined by newly elected Liberal Isabel Rochat.
Doctors have shown no-smoking support with stickers restaurants and bars can use
Geneva, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – Geneva’s battle to ban smoking continues: Thursday night the Grand Conseil, the canton’s legislative body, voted during a noisy and tense debate, to soften the no-smoking law proposed by the Conseil d’Etat, the canton’s executive body.
