The Centre Launches Its Campaign for the 2027 Federal Elections

Switzerland’s Centre party has entered the race for the 2027 federal elections with a clear demand: a second seat on the Federal Council. At its delegates’ meeting in Granges-Paccot on Saturday, the party gathered behind that ambition and began laying out its campaign.

The Centre also issued voting recommendations for two measures due to go before voters on November 29. It backed the revision concerning war materials and the financing of AVS, Switzerland’s old-age and survivors’ insurance system.

Party president Philipp Matthias Bregy urged delegates to build enough support for the claim to a second Federal Council seat to become an obvious one. “We want to become strong enough, by our own means, for our demand for a second seat on the Federal Council to become obvious,” he told them.

Bregy said the Centre would prepare for the election by emphasizing its own identity rather than copying another party. The meeting in Fribourg canton marked the start of a campaign centered on strengthening the party’s position through its own political profile.

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We want to become strong enough, by our own means, for our demand for a second seat on the Federal Council to become obvious.