Electoral Power
The CSP only has one seat on the federal scale in the National Council of Switzerland, the lower house, and has always been representing the State of Fribourg. On a cantonal level, the CSP has many elected members, mainly in catholic cantons of Valais, Fribourg, Obwalden and Jura. In the latter, the CSP had until late 2010 one elected member in the Executive body, the Conseil d'Etat of the Republic of Jura.
In the National Council of Switzerland, the party is part of the Parliamentary group of the Greens.
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