Vice-Chancellor of Switzerland Oswald Sigg was named successor to Vice-Chancellor and Federal Council spokesman Achille Casanova. With Federal Chancellor Annemarie Huber-Hotz and the other Vice-Chancellorship conferred to Corina Casanova (no relationship to Achille Casanova), the three key roles in the Federal Chancellery were held by Swiss Germans. Remarkably enough, though, when Corinna Casanova was elected Federal Chancellor three years later, the nomination of Thomas Helbling as her successor, another Swiss German, raised no such public criticism. At the time, the "Tages-Anzeiger" speculated that this might be due to the Latin cantons aiming for the post of Oswald Sigg, due to retire a bit
2019 Swiss federal election 2019 Swiss federal election Federal elections are scheduled to be held in Switzerland in 2019 to elect all members of both houses of the Federal Assembly. Subsequently there will be the 2019 election of the Swiss Federal Council, the federal executive, by the United Federal Assembly. The elections for the National Council will be held nationally on 20 October 2019. The cantons individually organise their elections for the Council of States, which all but one are to be held on 20 October 2019; the exception is the election in Appenzell Innerrhoden which will already take place in April. In some