Federal Act
on the Federal Assembly
(Parliament Act, ParlA)

¹ The mem­bers of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil are elec­ted by the United Fed­er­al As­sembly in the ses­sion fol­low­ing the gen­er­al elec­tion to the Na­tion­al Coun­cil.

² The seats are filled in­di­vidu­ally, one after the oth­er, in the or­der of the length of peri­od in of­fice of the serving of­fice hold­ers. Seats for which serving mem­bers of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil are stand­ing as can­did­ates are filled first.

³ In the first two bal­lots, any per­son who is eli­gible for elec­tion may be voted for. From the third bal­lot on­wards, no ad­di­tion­al can­did­atures are per­mit­ted.

⁴ Ex­cluded from the elec­tion are:

a.

those who ob­tain few­er than ten votes from the second bal­lot on­wards; and

b.

the per­son who re­ceives the low­est num­ber of votes from the third bal­lot on­wards, un­less more than one per­son re­ceives this same num­ber of votes.