Switzerland's FDP (Free Democratic Party) has announced it will field only one candidate — National Councillor Andri Silberschmidt, 32 — for the April 2027 elections to the Zurich cantonal government (the seven-member executive body governing Switzerland's most populous canton). The decision effectively abandons the party's bid to reclaim a second seat it lost in 2019, with FDP president Filippo Leutenegger citing a pragmatic strategy focused on retaining its existing seat. The move has drawn criticism from coalition partners, with the SVP and Mitte parties saying they were not properly consulted, and SVP cantonal president Domenik Ledergerber warning he may respond by fielding three SVP candidates to contest what he called a needlessly surrendered fifth centre-right seat.