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Swiss Parliament Elects New President for 2016

© REUTERS / Marcel Bieri/PoolOverview of the National Council during the ministerial elections in the Swiss Parliament during the winter session in Bern, Switzerland December 9, 2015
Overview of the National Council during the ministerial elections in the Swiss Parliament during the winter session in Bern, Switzerland December 9, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Johann Schneider-Ammann, from the center-right Free Democratic Party (FDP), was elected as the president of Switzerland.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Swiss Parliament has elected the country's president and vice-president for the coming year, the parliament's press service said Wednesday.

The Swiss president is elected by the national parliament from among the seven-member Federal Council for one year.

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Johann Schneider-Ammann, from the center-right Free Democratic Party (FDP), has been chosen to be the country's president, while Doris Leuthard from the Christian Democratic People's Party will become the vice-president, the parliament's press service announced through a post on its Twitter account.

Earlier in the day, the parliament elected Guy Parmelin from the anti-immigration Swiss People's Party (SVP) to become the next finance minister, replacing Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf from the Conservative Democratic Party.

The incumbent Swiss parliament was elected on October 18. The SVP won the election with about 30 percent of the vote, while Schneider-Ammann's FDP finished third, with the support of some 16 percent of the electorate.

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