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    Swiss women poised to claim Cabinet majority

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    Swiss Social Democrat lawmaker Simonetta Sommaruga, left, talks to Erika Forster from the Free Democratic Party, during a session of the upper chamber of the Swiss parliament, on Tuesday, in Bern, Switzerland. Swiss women look set to claim a majority of Cabinet seats, less than four decades after winning a long battle for the right to vote in national elections. A recent poll shows strong popular support for Sommaruga to gain one of two vacant places in the seven-member multiparty government.

    GENEVA (AP) — Swiss women look set to claim a majority of Cabinet seats, less than four decades after winning a long battle for the right to vote in national elections.

    A recent poll shows strong popular support for Social Democrat lawmaker Simonetta Sommaruga to gain one of two vacant places in the seven-member multiparty government.

    Fellow candidate Johann Schneider-Ammann of the pro-business Free Democrats was second in the poll of 1,000 voters.

    The Cabinet already has three female and two male members, representing five parties. They are expected to be re-elected when the parliament votes Wednesday.

    Swiss women have voted in national elections since 1971. One Swiss canton, Appenzell Inner-Rhodes, prevented women from voting in local elections until 1990.

    Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.

     

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