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51 relations: Abbreviation, Bern, Canton of Fribourg, Canton of Ticino, Canton of Uri, Canton of Zürich, Cantons of Switzerland, Census in Switzerland, Chernobyl disaster, Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland, Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland, Council of States (Switzerland), Cumulative voting, Dominique de Buman, Election threshold, Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland, FDP.The Liberals, Federal Assembly (Switzerland), Federal Council (Switzerland), Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer, Federal Palace of Switzerland, Financial crisis of 2007–2008, Forest dieback, Geneva Citizens' Movement, Green Liberal Party of Switzerland, Green Party of Switzerland, Hagenbach-Bischoff system, Jürg Stahl, Largest remainder method, List of members of the National Council of Switzerland, 2003–07, List of members of the National Council of Switzerland, 2007–11, List of members of the National Council of Switzerland, 2011–15, List of Presidents of the National Council of Switzerland, Lower house, Majority, Opposition (parliamentary), Panachage, Party-list proportional representation, Pension system in Switzerland, President of the Swiss Confederation, Proportional representation, Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, Swiss Federal Constitution, Swiss federal election, 2015, Swiss Party of Labour, Swiss People's Party, Swiss referendums, 1918, Swissair, Switzerland, Ticino League, ..., Upper house. Expand index (1 more) »
Abbreviation
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.
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Bern
Bern or Berne (Bern, Bärn, Berne, Berna, Berna) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".
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Canton of Fribourg
The canton of Fribourg, also canton of Friburg (canton de Fribourg, Freiburg) is located in western Switzerland.
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Canton of Ticino
The canton of Ticino, formally the Republic and Canton of Ticino (Repubblica e Cantone Ticino; Canton Tesin; Kanton Tessin; canton du Tessin, chantun dal Tessin) is the southernmost canton of Switzerland.
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Canton of Uri
The canton of Uri (German: Kanton) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and a founding member of the Swiss Confederation.
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Canton of Zürich
The canton of Zürich (Kanton) has a population (as of) of.
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Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland (Kanton, canton, cantone, chantun) are the member states of the Swiss Confederation.
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Census in Switzerland
The first Federal population census in Switzerland took place in March 1850 under the direction of Federal Councillor Stefano Franscini.
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Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident.
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Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz, CVP; Parti Démocrate-Chrétien, PDC; Partito Popolare Democratico, PPD; Partida cristiandemocratica Svizra, PCD) is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland.
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Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland (Bürgerlich-Demokratische Partei Schweiz, BDP; Parti bourgeois démocratique suisse, PBD; Partito Borghese Democratico Svizzero, PBD; Partida burgais democratica Svizra PBD, PBD; all translations mean literally Citizens' Democratic Party of Switzerland) is a conservative political party in Switzerland.
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Council of States (Switzerland)
The Council of States (Ständerat, Conseil des États, Consiglio degli Stati, Cussegl dals Stadis) is the smaller chamber of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, and is considered the Assembly's upper house, with the National Council being the lower house.
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Cumulative voting
Cumulative voting (also accumulation voting, weighted voting or multi-voting) is a multiple-winner voting method intended to promote more proportional representation than winner-take-all elections.
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Dominique de Buman
Dominique de Buman (born 28 April 1956) is a Swiss politician.
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Election threshold
The electoral threshold is the minimum share of the primary vote which a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to any representation in a legislature.
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Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland
The Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland (Evangelische Volkspartei der Schweiz, Parti évangelique suisse, Partito Evangelico Svizzero, Partida evangelica da la Svizra) is a Protestant Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland, active mainly in the Cantons of Bern, Basel-Land, Basel-Stadt, Aargau and Zürich.
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FDP.The Liberals
FDP.The Liberals (FDP.Die Liberalen, PLR.Les Libéraux-Radicaux, PLR.I Liberali, PLD.Ils Liberals) is a liberal political party in Switzerland.
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Federal Assembly (Switzerland)
The Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung, Assemblée fédérale, Assemblea federale, Assamblea federala) is Switzerland's federal legislature.
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Federal Council (Switzerland)
The Federal Council is the seven-member executive council which constitutes the federal government of the Swiss Confederation and serves as the collective executive head of government and state of Switzerland.
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Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer
The Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer (Eidgenössischer Dank-, Buss- und Bettag, Jeûne fédéral, Digiuno federale) is a public holiday in Switzerland.
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Federal Palace of Switzerland
The Federal Palace (Bundeshaus, Palais fédéral, Palazzo federale, Chasa federala, Curia Confœderationis Helveticæ) refers to the building in Bern housing the Swiss Federal Assembly (legislature) and the Federal Council (executive).
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Financial crisis of 2007–2008
The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Forest dieback
Forest dieback (also "Waldsterben", a German loan word) is a condition in trees or woody plants in which peripheral parts are killed, either by pathogens, parasites or due to conditions like acid rain and drought.
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Geneva Citizens' Movement
The Geneva Citizens' Movement (Mouvement Citoyens Genevois), abbreviated to MCG, is a populist political party in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Green Liberal Party of Switzerland
The Green Liberal Party of Switzerland (Grünliberale Partei der Schweiz, glp; Parti vert'libéral, pvl), abbreviated to glp, is a centrist Green liberal political party in Switzerland.
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Green Party of Switzerland
The Green Party of Switzerland (Grüne Partei der Schweiz; Les vertsParti écologiste suisse; I VerdiPartito ecologista svizzero; La VerdaPartida ecologica svizra; "The GreensSwiss ecological party") is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.
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Hagenbach-Bischoff system
The Hagenbach-Bischoff system is a variant of the D'Hondt method, used for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation.
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Jürg Stahl
Jürg Stahl (born 16 January 1968 in Winterthur) is a Swiss politician of the Swiss People's Party.
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Largest remainder method
The largest remainder method (also known as Hare-Niemeyer method, Hamilton method or as Vinton's method) is one way of allocating seats proportionally for representative assemblies with party list voting systems.
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List of members of the National Council of Switzerland, 2003–07
This is a list of the 200 members of the Swiss National Council for the term 2003-2007.
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List of members of the National Council of Switzerland, 2007–11
This is a list of the 200 members of the Swiss National Council for the 2007–2011 legislative term.
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List of members of the National Council of Switzerland, 2011–15
This is a list of members of the Swiss National Council for the 2011–2015 term.
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List of Presidents of the National Council of Switzerland
The President of the National Council of Switzerland (Nationalratspräsident; Président du Conseil national, Presidente del Consiglio nazionale; President dal cussegl naziunal) presides over the National Council and the Federal Assembly.
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Lower house
A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house.
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Majority
A majority is the greater part, or more than half, of the total.
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Opposition (parliamentary)
Parliamentary opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system.
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Panachage
Panachage is the name given to a procedure provided for in several open list variants of the party-list proportional representation system which gives voters more than one vote for the same ballot and allows them to distribute their votes between individual candidates from different party lists.
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Party-list proportional representation
Party-list proportional representation systems are a family of voting systems emphasizing proportional representation (PR) in elections in which multiple candidates are elected (e.g., elections to parliament) through allocations to an electoral list.
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Pension system in Switzerland
The Swiss pension system rests on three pillars.
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President of the Swiss Confederation
The President of the Confederation, colloquially known as the President of Switzerland or Federal President, is the head of Switzerland's seven-member Federal Council, the country's executive branch.
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Proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) characterizes electoral systems by which divisions into an electorate are reflected proportionately into the elected body.
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Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (also rendered as Swiss Socialist Party; Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz, SP; Parti socialiste suisse, PS; Partito Socialista Svizzero; Partida Socialdemocrata de la Svizra) is a political party in Switzerland.
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Swiss Federal Constitution
The Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (SR 10, Bundesverfassung der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft (BV), Constitution fédérale de la Confédération suisse (Cst.), Costituzione federale della Confederazione Svizzera (Cost.), Constituziun federala da la Confederaziun svizra) of 18 April 1999 (SR 101) is the third and current federal constitution of Switzerland.
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Swiss federal election, 2015
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 18 October 2015 for the National Council and the first round of elections to the Council of States, with runoff elections to the Council of States being held in various cantons until 22 November.
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Swiss Party of Labour
The Swiss Party of Labour (Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz; Parti Suisse du Travail - Parti Ouvrier et Populaire; Partito Comunista; Partida svizra da la lavur) is a communist party in Switzerland.
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Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP; Partida populara Svizra, PPS), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (Union démocratique du centre, UDC; Unione Democratica di Centro, UDC), is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Switzerland.
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Swiss referendums, 1918
Two referendums were held in Switzerland during 1918.
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Swissair
Swissair AG/S.A. (German: Schweizerische Luftverkehr-AG; French: S.A. Suisse pour la Navigation Aérienne) was the national airline of Switzerland between its founding in 1931 and bankruptcy in 2002.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Ticino League
The Ticino League (Lega dei Ticinesi) is an isolationist, national conservative political party in Switzerland active in the canton of Ticino.
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Upper house
An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature (or one of three chambers of a tricameral legislature), the other chamber being the lower house.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_(Switzerland)
