Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 40% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (15%), the FDP (14.5%) and the CVP (11.6%).
Local laws are made by the parish assembly of voters, with a five-member executive parish council elected on the "first-past-the-post" system for a four-year term. The chairman of the council for 2006-2009 is Paul Stalder.
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“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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