Council of States

Sources

• fedlex.admin.ch · checked Oct 12, 2026 Federal Chancellery / Fedlex, Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (SR 101), read 2026-10-12: existence, powers and composition of the Federal Assembly, National Council, Council of States, Federal Council and Federal Supreme Court (Art. 148-191); websites from parlament.ch, admin.ch, bk.admin.ch and bger.ch. For: Council of States
• fedlex.admin.ch · checked Oct 12, 2026 Federal Constitution (authentic German, French, Italian texts; Romansh translation), read 2026-10-12; party names from parlament.ch web service MemberCouncil (Party names, DE/FR), read 2026-10-12. For: Council of States in French, Council of States in German, Council of States in Italian, Council of States in Romansh
• fedlex.admin.ch · checked Oct 12, 2026 Federal Chancellery / Fedlex, Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (SR 101), read 2026-10-12: sizes and selection of the offices (Art. 149, 150, 152, 168, 175, 176, 188). Federal Supreme Court size from Federal Supreme Court Act (SR 173.110) Art. 1. For: President of the Council of States, Member of the Council of States
• ws.parlament.ch · checked Oct 12, 2026 Federal Assembly, Parliament web service MemberCouncil / MemberCouncilHistory, read 2026-10-12: member, party, canton, start date (DateJoining); Federal Council start dates from contiguous MemberCouncilHistory entries; departments from admin.ch (Members of the Federal Council). For: Marianne Binder-Keller as Member of the Council of States, Aargau, Thierry Burkart as Member of the Council of States, Aargau, Andrea Caroni as Member of the Council of States, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Daniel Fässler as Member of the Council of States, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Maya Graf as Member of the Council of States, Basel-Landschaft and 41 more
• en.wikipedia.org · checked Oct 12, 2026 Presiding officer for 2025/26 from Wikipedia lists of presidents of the National Council and the Council of States, read 2026-10-12. Fallback: parlament.ch pages were unreachable (HTTP 404 on guessed URLs); cross-checked that the person is an active member in the parlament.ch MemberCouncil data. For: Stefan Engler as President of the Council of States
• bk.admin.ch · checked Oct 12, 2026 Federal Chancellery, list of election dates (Droits politiques / Votes for the next 20 years): federal election 2027-10-24, as cited by Wikipedia List of elections in 2027, read 2026-10-12. Fallback: the Chancellery page itself returned HTTP 404 on 2026-10-12, so the date is not confirmed directly from the official page. For: General election, October 24, 2027