Greta Gysin to run for Ticino's cantonal government in 2027

Greta Gysin, a Green Party member of the National Council, has confirmed to RSI that she will run for a seat on Ticino's cantonal government, the Consiglio di Stato, in the April 2027 elections.

Her candidacy is part of the red-green list, which will also include outgoing state councillor Marina Carobbio Guscetti for the Socialist Party and Matteo Pronzini for the Movement for Socialism (MPS). Under the agreement between the three parties, two of the list's five seats go to the Socialists, two to the Greens and one to the MPS.

Gysin believes a doubling of red-green representation in government is possible, though difficult, provided the parties manage to mobilise their voter base. She describes her candidacy as support for the progressive camp, to help it grow and put forward a political approach different from that of the majority that has governed the canton so far. In government, she says she wants to bring strong attention to both environmental and socio-economic issues.

Alongside Gysin, the SVP's Piero Marchesi and the FDP's Alex Farinelli are also sitting national councillors running for the cantonal government: three in total will be in the race in April.

A third run for government

Born in Locarno in 1983, Gysin was a coordinator of the Swiss Young Greens and founder of the Ticino Young Greens. She sat in the cantonal parliament, the Gran Consiglio, from 2007 to 2015, and was elected to the National Council in 2019, becoming the first Ticino Green to do so. Since May she has chaired the Green parliamentary group in the federal chambers.

This is not Gysin's first run for cantonal government: she had already tried in 2007 and in 2011, when the Socialists and the Greens ran on separate lists. This time the two parties, together with the MPS, have chosen to join forces on a single list.

The question of Fabrizio Sirica remains open. The Socialist Party co-president dropped out of the race for government after a speeding case. Within the red-green list, the MPS has asked that Sirica also stay out of the election campaign, to prevent the episode from being exploited by opponents.