On 8 March 2026, the canton of Vaud will not be voting for a man. It will be voting for a system.
A system that for years has been piling up spending, buying social peace on credit and turning the State into a machine for redistributing... other people's money. Behind the reassuring veneer of rhetoric about “social justice”, the reality is clear: suffocating taxation, trivialised insecurity, a pressurised middle class and public finances under strain. Against this backdrop, the by-election to the Council of State now pits two irreconcilable visions against each other. Continue as before - or regain control.
On 8 March 2026, the canton of Vaud will be choosing more than just a name to complete the Council of State.
He will choose a trajectory.
On one side, Roger Nordmann, The city was the emblematic figure of an urban, centralising and fiscally voracious socialism.
On the other, Jean-François Thuillard, He is a man with his feet firmly on the ground, with a clear vision: security, fiscal responsibility and respect for productive forces.
This election is anything but insignificant. Vaud is at a crossroads.
Roger Nordmann: the symbol of Lausanne-centric, out-of-touch socialism
Roger Nordmann plays a technocratic and ideological vision, made in Berne and Lausanne, disconnected from the realities of the outlying, rural and productive canton.
His plan is clear:
- prolong the Maillard system,
- to make ever-increasing public spending sacrosanct,
- finance it all with a punitive taxation, including real estate,
- make people believe that the State can eternally redistribute without producing.
Problem: the numbers just don't add up.
⮕ The canton had to announce CHF 305 million in savings in the 2026 budget.
⮕ The health premiums increase by an average of 4.5 % per year, Despite the measures designed to contain them.
⮕ Cumulative tax pressure grows mobile taxpayers from, This weakens the real tax base.
⮕ The historic demonstrations by civil servants in recent months illustrate an inconvenient truth: the model is out of breath.
The left promises everything to everyone, but can no longer referee.
Social clientelism as a mode of governance
The Nordmann project is based on a dangerous logic:
⮕ buying social peace on credit,
⮕ preserve political rents,
⮕ shift the burden onto an ever more stretched productive minority.
Result:
- a pressurised middle class,
- the vulnerable self-employed and SMEs,
- a sprawling state unable to reform,
- growing insecurity that the left refuses to name.
This is not a ’general interest« policy.
This is a electoral client management.
Jean-François Thuillard: the alternative of responsibility
Jean-François Thuillard is no sloganeer.
It is a radically different profile :
- farmer,
- an experienced local councillor,
- rooted in reality,
- aware that without value creators, there is nothing to redistribute.
His message is clear:
- security To re-establish the authority of the State where it is being eroded,
- tax fairness Stop chasing taxpayers,
- efficiency Doing better with existing public money,
- territorial balance Vaud is more than just Lausanne.
Where the left speaks of abstract “social justice”, Thuillard speaks of concrete responsibility.
A revealing election
This election will say one essential thing:
⮕ Does Vaud want to become a canton administered, taxed and under constant pressure?
⮕ Or a canton governed, secure and economically attractive?
Roger Nordmann represents continuity of an exhausted model.
Jean-François Thuillard embodies a a break with common sense.
Conclusion
On 8 March 2026, vote Jean-François Thuillard,
it's not about voting “against” someone.
Voting for a canton that stands on its own two feet,
for a state that protects without stifling,
for a policy that respects those who work, produce and pay.
Client-based socialism has already cost Vaud dearly.
It's time to change course.
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