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Urs Gasche (born) is a Swiss politician and a member of the Executive Council of the Canton of Bern since 1998.

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The Zauberformel (German for magical formula; in French: formule magique) was the formula that determined, from 1959 to 2003, the number of seats each major political party was due in the Swiss Federal Council, the body of equals that serves as the government of Switzerland.

More than a gentlemen's agreement but less than a fully-fledged constitutional convention, the Zauberformel reflected a broad consensus among the major political parties to form a permanent grand coalition, in which