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Current and recent Members of the Swiss Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung)
This dataset lists the members of the Swiss Federal Assembly.
The data is collected from the open data web services provided by the Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly. The Federal Assembly is the bicameral parliament of Switzerland, consisting of two chambers:
The National Council (Nationalrat/Conseil national/Consiglio nazionale) is the lower chamber with 200 members elected by proportional representation for four-year terms. Seats are distributed among the 26 cantons based on population.
The Council of States (Ständerat/Conseil des États/Consiglio degli Stati) is the upper chamber with 46 members representing the cantons (two per canton, one per half-canton). Members are elected by their respective cantons for four-year terms.
The Federal Assembly exercises legislative power, approves the federal budget, elects the Federal Council (executive branch), and oversees the administration. Both chambers have equal powers in legislation.
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| Publisher: | Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly · Switzerland The Swiss Parliament provides open access to parliamentary data through web services at http://ws-old.parlament.ch/. The API offers comprehensive information about parliamentarians, committees, legislative periods, sessions, votes, and parliamentary affairs in multiple languages (German, French, Italian, English). | ||||||
| Collections: | in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets | ||||||
| Information: | www.parlament.ch | ||||||
| Source data: | ws-old.parlament.ch · JSON | ||||||
| Tags: | list.pep | ||||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: monthly | ||||||
| Last processed: | 2025-10-13 10:32:41 · v. 20251013103241-ofv | ||||||
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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.
| File name | Export type | Size | |
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 1.35 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 14.16 KB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 635.74 KB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 1.7 MB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 138.09 KB |
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You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
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The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| Manuela Weichelt | Person | Switzerland | |
| Simon Michel | Person | Switzerland | |
| Céline Weber | Person | Switzerland | |
| Rolf Escher | Person | Switzerland | |
| Thomas Pfisterer | Person | Switzerland | |
| Andreas Zeller | Person | Switzerland | |
| Jean-Claude Cornu | Person | Switzerland | |
| Clarence Chollet | Person | Switzerland | |
| Severin Brüngger | Person | Switzerland | |
| Mathilde Crevoisier Crelier | Person | Switzerland | |
| Paolo Pamini | Person | Switzerland | |
| Giorgio Fonio | Person | Switzerland | |
| Yvan Pahud | Person | Switzerland | |
| Benoît Gaillard | Person | Switzerland | |
| Fabienne Stämpfli | Person | Switzerland |
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