Green Liberal Party of Switzerland

Swiss political party

Green Liberal Party of Switzerland

German name| Grünliberale Partei (GLP)
French name| Parti vert'libéral (PVL)
Italian name| Partito Verde-Liberale (PVL)
Romansh name| Partida Verda-Liberala (PVL)
President| Jürg Grossen
Members of the Federal Council| None
Founded| 19 July 2007
Split from| Green Party of Switzerland
Headquarters| Monbijoustrasse 30
3011 Berne
Membership (2019)| 5,000[1]
Ideology| Green liberalism
Pro-Europeanism
Political position| Centre to centre-left[2]
International affiliation| Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party[3]
Colours|  Light green
Light blue
National Council|

10 / 200

Council of States|

1 / 46

Cantonal legislatures|

99 / 2,609

Website
www.grunliberale.ch

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The Green Liberal Party of Switzerland (German: Grünliberale Partei der Schweiz, GLP; Romansh: Partida verda-liberala, PVL; French: Parti vert'libéral, PVL; Italian: Partito verde liberale, PVL), abbreviated to GLP, is a centrist[4][5][6] green-liberal[7] political party in Switzerland.[8] Founded in 2007, the party holds eleven seats in the Federal Assembly as of the October 2023 election.

The party was formed on 19 July 2007 by four cantonal branches of the Green Party. Contesting the election in October 2007 in St. Gallen and Zurich, the party won three seats in the National Council. A month later, the party won a seat in the Council of States, with Verena Diener representing Zurich. The party has since expanded across Switzerland, and holds seats in thirteen cantonal legislatures in German-speaking Switzerland and the Romandy. The party reached 5.4% at the 2011 federal election,[9] increasing the number of Members of the National Council from 3 to 12, suffered a setback in 2015 retreating to 7 seats with 4.6% of the national vote,[10] only to recover in 2019 by winning 16 seats with 7.8% of the vote.

The GLP are a party of the political centre[4] in contrast to the left-wing Green Party of Switzerland. They GLP seek to combine liberalism on civil liberties and moderate economic liberalism with environmental sustainability.[11] Political scientist Andreas Ladner has described their policy as "as green as the Greens", but "significantly less left-wing" than them.[12]: 514 The party has an autonomous parliamentary group in the Federal Assembly of Switzerland since the 2011 federal election.[13]

## History

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Logo from 2004 to October 2021

In 2004, two leading members of the Greens in Zurich, Verena Diener and Martin Bäumle, left the party citing its leftist tendencies and organisational concerns, and founded the Green Liberal Party of Zurich.[12]: 513 The national party was founded on 19 July 2007 by four cantonal parties of the same name that had seceded from the Green Party.[14] These branches were in Zurich, Basel-Landschaft, Bern, and St. Gallen.

In the 2007 election to the National Council on 22 October 2007, the party ran in Zurich and St. Gallen.[15] Despite being limited to only two cantons, the party won 1.4% of the popular vote nationwide and 3 out of 200 seats. In Zurich, they won 7% of the vote and in St. Gallen they won 3.2%.[12]: 513 [15] One of these three had been a National Councillor for the Green Party in the previous Parliament. Success in the 2007 elections caused leaders to look to seriously compete for a seat on the Federal Council.[12]: 510

A month later, it won a seat in the Council of States, with Verena Diener representing Zurich. Along with the first appearance of the Green Party, this was the first time a minor party had won representation in the Council of States since 1995.[16] When the Federal Assembly convened, the GLP joined the Christian Democrats/EPP/glp Group,[15] making it the second-largest group, behind the Swiss People's Party.[17] In 2010 the party got an additional seat in the Council of States with Markus Stadler from Uri.

At the 2011 federal election, the GLP was one of the big winners, increasing its vote share to 5.4%.[12]: 513 It had stood in 11 cantons, getting between 2% and 10.3% of the vote.[12]: 513

The GLP was one of the leading political parties for legalising same-sex marriage in Switzerland, in which it was adopted in an optional referendum on 26 September 2021.

In October 2021, the GLP introduced a new, refreshed logo with the French slogan créateurs d'avenir (creators of the future). Since April 2022, there are cantonal parties in all 26 cantons.

Percentages of the green liberal party at district level in 2011.

## Ideology and platform

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The party supports ending the use of nuclear energy in Switzerland and terminating any subsidies to nuclear power companies.[18] At the same time, the GLP supports the promotion of green technologies and cleantech through tax credits as an economic opportunity.[19] The party supports the criminalization of the corporal punishment of children.[20]

On economic and fiscal matters the GLP is more centre-right. It supports Switzerland maintaining a balanced fiscal budget and continued tax competition between the Swiss cantons.[21] It also supports stronger regulation of large Swiss banks such as UBS, including liquidity requirements.[22]

The Green Liberals support closer EU-Swiss relations and on this question are considered ideologically closer to the Social Democrats and Green Party than to The Liberals or Swiss People's Party because they support Switzerland's accession to the European Economic Area.[19] However, unlike the Swiss left the GLP support lifting the Swiss ban on exporting weapons to Ukraine.[23] After the October 7 Attacks in Israel, the federal branch of the Green Liberals also expressed support for Switzerland declaring Hamas a terrorist organisation in a press release, as well as for stricter regulation of Swiss financial aid to the Palestinian Authority.[24]

## Elected representatives

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### Council of States

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None since the 2015 election.

### National Council

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2019–2023 legislature:

* Martin Bäumle
* Kathrin Bertschy
* Isabelle Chevalley (until 2021)
* Beat Flach
* Jürg Grossen
* Tiana Angelina Moser
* [1] Judith Bellaïche
* Thomas Brunner
* Katja Christ
* Roland Fischer
* Corina Gredig
* Jörg Mäder
* Michel Matter
* Melanie Mettler [de]
* François Pointet
* Barbara Schaffner
* Céline Weber (since 2021)

## Election results

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### National Council

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Election  | Votes  | %  | Seats  | +/–

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2011 | 49,314  | 2.12 (#7)  |

3 / 200

| New
2007 | 131,436  | 5.39 (#7)  |

12 / 200

|  9
2015 | 115,604  | 4.63 (#6)  |

7 / 200

|  5
2019 | 189,162  | 7.80 (#6)  |

16 / 200

|  9
2023 | 192,944  | 7.55 (#6)  |

10 / 200

|  6

## See also

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* Environmental movement in Switzerland

## References

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1. ^ The Swiss Confederation — A Brief Guide. Federal Chancellery. 2015. p. 20\. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
2. ^ name="guide">https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/parlamentarier-rating-2023-die-oeko-parteien-werden-linker-die-svp-rechter-ld.1759382
3. ^ "ALDE Party Council meets in Zürich". ALDE. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.[permanent dead link]
4. ^ a b Federal Chancellery, Communication Support (2016). The Swiss Confederation – a brief guide (PDF). Switzerland: Swiss Confederation. p. 18. Retrieved 11 December 2016.[dead link]
5. ^ "Analyse der Parolen – Schweizer Parteien rücken nach links". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 17 April 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
6. ^ "Grünliberale Partei – smartmap". Parteienkompass. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
7. ^ Switzerland Parliament Guide: Strategic Information, Regulations, Developments. Vol. 1 (2019 ed.). International Business Publications, USA. 30 June 2019. p. 63\. ISBN 978-1-4387-4694-4.
8. ^ Bale, Tim (2021). Riding the populist wave: Europe's mainstream right in crisis. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 36\. ISBN 978-1-009-00686-6. OCLC 1256593260.
9. ^ Eckdaten Nationalrat 2011 / 2007 (in German), Swiss Parliament, archived from the original on 27 January 2012
10. ^ Bundesamt für Statistik. "Nationalratswahlen: Übersicht Schweiz". Archived from the original on 20 October 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
11. ^ Green Liberal Party. "What we stand for". Archived from the original on 31 March 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
12. ^ a b c d e f Andreas Ladner (May 2012). "Switzerland's Green Liberal Party: a new party model for the environment?". Environmental Politics. 21 (3): 510–515.
13. ^ "Parliamentary groups of the 49th legislative period 2011 - 2015". Federal Assembly of Switzerland. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
14. ^ Milic, Thomas (December 2008). "Switzerland". European Journal of Political Research. 47 (7–8): 1148–55. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.2008.00812.x.
15. ^ a b c Dardanelli, Paolo (December 2008). "The Swiss federal elections of 2007". Electoral Studies. 27 (4): 748–51. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2008.04.010.
16. ^ "Parteipolitische Zusammensetzung des Ständerates nach den Wahlen". Federal Assembly of Switzerland. Archived from the original on 5 May 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
17. ^ "Parliamentary groups of the 48th legislative period 2007-2011". Federal Assembly of Switzerland. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
18. ^ "Klimaschutz & Energie". grunliberale.ch. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
19. ^ a b "Mit Mut zur Lösung gegen die Blockadepolitik". grunliberale.ch (in German). Retrieved 22 January 2024.
20. ^ "Gewaltfreie Erziehung". grunliberale.ch (in German). Retrieved 22 January 2024.
21. ^ "Wirtschaft & Finanzen". grunliberale.ch. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
22. ^ "Vorlage zur Änderung des Bankengesetzes". grunliberale.ch (in German). Retrieved 22 January 2024.
23. ^ "Wiederausfuhr von Rüstungsgütern: Wenn der Bundesrat sich weigert, muss das Parlament übernehmen". grunliberale.ch (in German). Retrieved 22 January 2024.
24. ^ "Hamas ist eine terroristische Organisation". grunliberale.ch (in German). Retrieved 14 May 2024.

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