Romansh is a Gallo-Romance and/or Rhaeto-Romance language spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Grisons (Graubünden). Romansh has been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since 1938,and as an official language in correspondence with Romansh-speaking citizens since 1996,along with German,French,and Italian. It also has official status in the canton of the Grisons alongside German and Italian and is used as the medium of instruction in schools in Romansh-speaking areas. It is sometimes grouped by linguists with Ladin and Friulian as the Rhaeto-Romance languages,though this is disputed.
Leon Schlumpf was a Swiss politician and a member of the Swiss Federal Council (1979–1987).
The Grisons or Graubünden,more formally the Canton of the Grisons or the Canton of Graubünden,is one of the twenty-six cantons of Switzerland. It has eleven districts,and its capital is Chur. The German name of the canton,Graubünden,translates as the "Grey Leagues",referring to the canton's origin in three local alliances,the Three Leagues. The other native names also refer to the Grey League:Grischùn in Sutsilvan,Grischun in the other forms of Romansh,and Grigioni in Italian. Rhaetia is the Latin name for the area. The Alpine ibex is the canton's heraldic symbol.
Felix Louis Calonder was a Swiss politician,member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1913 to 1920,and President of the Confederation in 1918. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party. During his tenure of office,he held the Department of Home Affairs from 1913 to 1917,and the Political Department from 1918 to 1919. As of 2022,Felix Calonder has been the Federal Council's only native Romansh speaker.
Simeon Bavier was a Swiss politician,member of the Swiss Federal Council (1878–1883).
Switzerland elects on national level a collective head of state,the Federal Council,and a legislature,the Federal Assembly.
Mustér or Disentis (German),with its official name Disentis/Mustér is a village and a municipality in the Surselva Region in the Swiss canton of Grisons.
Disentis Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the Canton of Grisons in eastern Switzerland,around which the present town of Disentis grew up.
The Romansh people are a Romance ethnic group,the speakers of the Romansh language,native to the Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden).
The Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland was a conservative political party in Switzerland from 2008 to 2020. After the 2019 federal election,the BDP had three members in the National Council.
Surselva Region is one of the eleven administrative districts in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the canton.
Caspar Decurtins was a politician (Catholic-Conservative) from the Surselva region,up-river to the west of Chur in the Swiss canton of Grisons.
Martin Bundi was a Swiss historian and politician. He was a member of the Swiss National Council from 1975 to 1995 and was the chamber’s President in 1985 and 1986. He was a native of the Canton of Grisons and a longtime member of the Social Democratic Party.
The Grand Council of Grisons is the unicameral legislature of the Swiss canton of Grisons. It meets in the cantonal capital Chur's Grand Council Building (Grossratsgebäude),being composed of 120 members,elected for 4 years.
The Centre is a centre to centre-right political party in Switzerland. It was formed through the merger of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (CVP/PDC) and the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland (BDP/PBD). Following the formal merger of the parties on 1 January 2021,it has 29 of 200 seats in the National Council and 15 of 46 seats in the Council of States. Viola Amherd is the party's representative on the Federal Council and served as the President of the Swiss Confederation in 2024.
By-elections to the Swiss Federal Council were held on 7 December 2022,after federal councillors Ueli Maurer (SVP-ZH) and Simonetta Sommaruga (SP-BE) announced they would leave the Council effective 31 December of the same year. The parliament elected Albert Rösti and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider respectively to replace them.
Brigitte Häberli-Koller is a Swiss politician of The Centre (DM/LC) party,formerly of the Christian Democratic People's Party. She was a member of the National Council from 2003 to 2011 and has been a member of the Council of States since 2011,of which she served as its president from 2022 to 2023.
Sandra Locher Benguerel is an educator and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Since 2019,she is a member of the National Council,the lower house of the Swiss Parliament.
Jon Andri Pult is a Swiss consultant,historian and politician who currently serves as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) for the Social Democratic Party since 2019. He previously served on the Grand Council of Grisons between 2010 and 2018. In the 2023 Swiss federal election,Pult declared official candidacy for Federal Council (Switzerland),to succeed Alain Berset.
