What are the 26 areas called that make up The Swiss Confederation?
President of the Swiss Confederation president is not the Swiss head of state; the entire Federal Council is the collective head of state. The constitutional provisions relating to the organization of the Federal Government and Federal administration are set out in "Section 1 Organisation and Procedure" of "Chapter 3 Federal Council and Federal Administration" of the "Title 3 Confederation, Cantons and Communes" of the Swiss Federal Constitution at articles 174 to 179. Article 176 specifically relates to the Presidency. The Swiss president is not – as are, for example, the Presidents in Austria or Germany – the head of state of the country: under the
President of the Swiss Confederation of Foreign Affairs. Therefore, every year there was a moving around of posts, as the retiring president returned to his former department and the new president took up the Foreign Affairs portfolio. Likewise, it was traditional for the federal president not to leave Switzerland during their year in office. President of the Swiss Confederation The President of the Swiss Confederation, also known as the President of the Confederation or colloquially as the President of Switzerland, is the head of Switzerland's seven-member Federal Council, the country's executive branch. Elected by the Federal Assembly for one year, the president chairs the meetings