A third seat on the seven-member Federal Council is not on the right-wing party's radar for the 2027 federal elections. "We are sticking to the current magic formula," party campaign director Manuel Strupler said in an interview on Saturday. He did not give a target share of the electorate the party was aiming for. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "It's clear that the party wants to make progress," said the parliamentarian from Thurgau in an interview with Schweiz am Wochenende. However, an additional seat on the governing Federal Council is not on the agenda. According to an election poll published in October, a 30% vote share result is within the party's grasp. If the elections had been held last autumn, the Swiss People's Party would have achieved an electoral share of 30.4%, an increase of 2.5 percentage points. These are the findings of an electoral barometer published by the Sotomo research centre on behalf of Swiss Broadcasting Corporation ...
