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Emotions. For the national holiday, President Sylvain Dumoulin gives a farewell -shaped speech. On the road that leads from Zion to Savièse, the posters of the centrist Marie Zuchuat are the largest, and those of the most numerous liberal-radical Julien Dubuis. In Chandolin, one of the six villages of Savièse, the candidate brought together her supporters in a restaurant. The day before, his opponent invited his family to the brewery located at the entrance to the town. Hand handles, hugs and good words: country events punctuate summer. The two camps mobilize their troops for the election to the presidency of August 24. After two surprisingly peaceful legislatures, this duel awakens the old Saviésannes quarrels. A connoisseur analyzes: “We believed that the policilleries were finished but they were just on a break.”
For many, this election will have a taste of revenge. In 2016, after an ugly campaign, the alliance of radicals, liberals and socialists lost both the absolute majority and the presidency of the village. The PDC and its candidate Sylvain Dumoulin won an unprecedented victory. Local singularity in a canton dominated by Christian Democrats, the agreement will have led the town for 83 years. In the reference work on this party, which dates from forty years, Jean-Marie Luyet conceded that his members have rarely arranged on other projects than the conquest of power. He wrote in particular: “The history of the Party of Entente is, like the Savises, sometimes tender, sometimes fun, often excessive, always passionate, never monotonous.”
