How to vote for a candidate

OSA, Elections, 04.04.2025

For the first time, the UK CSA Delegates are being voted for electronically only. 

Here is how it will work and how you will be able to vote.

You will be able to select up to 5 candidates.

You will receive an email directly from the FDFA with voting instructions and a personalised code on 12 April 2025.

You can cast your vote until the polls close on 11 May 2025.

1 code per vote. The code is personal and cannot be shared.

If you have registered multiple eligible voters under the same email address, you will receive separate emails and codes from the FDFA.

The embassies do not count votes and do not communicate results. The results will be directly sent from the e-voting provider (Bernese University of Applied Science) to the election coordinators and to the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad.

UK Candidate Profiles

Elections, UK Delegates, OSA, 03.04.2025

For the first time in the UK, all 5 candidates will be voted for directly by the public.

The candidate profiles are now published and in Issue 2 of the Regional Edition of the Swiss Review in 2025. 

Voting will open on the 12th of April and will be closed at midnight 11th of May 2025. 

Eligible voters will be sent an email with instructions on how to vote online by the FDFA (Federal Department of Foreign Affairs) when the voting polls open on Friday, 11^th April 2025.

The elected candidates are ratified at the FOSSUK Congress on 7 June 2025 which will take at the Swiss Embassy London. 

New director of the Organization of the Swiss Abroad

OSA, CSA, 28.03.2025

The board of the Organization of the Swiss Abroad (OSA), SwissCommunity, chaired by former Council of States member Filippo Lombardi, unanimously elected Dr. Lukas Weber as the new Director of the organization's Secretariat.

He succeeds Ariane Rustichelli, who is taking on a new professional challenge after 17 years with the OSA.