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President of the National Council

  • French: Président du Conseil national
  • German: Nationalratspräsident
  • Italian: Presidente del Consiglio nazionale

National Council · Switzerland

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How it's filled

In plain words
Chosen by the council from among its members
Exact method
Elected by the National Council from among its members for one year (Federal Constitution Art. 152; Parliament Act Art. 35).
Seats
1
Source: fedlex.admin.ch, checked

Who holds it now

Sources

  • fedlex.admin.ch · checked 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 National Council
  • fedlex.admin.ch · checked 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: President of the National Council in French, President of the National Council in German, President of the National Council in Italian
  • en.wikipedia.org · checked 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: Pierre-André Page, current term

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