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This is a prestigious job that many politicians in Bern would be more than happy to undertake – Central Councilor Isabelle Chassot (58) won the race. She was elected Chairman of the Parliamentary Investigation Commission, better known as the PUK. According to her place, she became the first woman to hold the post on June 14, when the feminist strike took place. No early compliments.
The Commission must now clarify who is responsible for Credit Suisse’s decline and what needs to be done to prevent a similar fiasco from happening again. The career of the Freiburg lawyer was an impeccable one, characterized by high positions and excellent results in elections. In addition, Chassot is popular in all political camps and has excellent connections in Bern and western Switzerland. However, the convinced Christian Democrat has no experience in banking or finance.
He takes part in science, education, culture and foreign policy committees at the Council of State. Critics also complain that as the former head of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), he is unfit to conduct an investigation into the federal government. In fact, Chassot is faced with a colossal task that could bring him a lot of prestige but also sharp criticism.
Comrades
Greens National Assemblyman Franziska Ryser will lead the investigations into the emergency merger of Credit Suisse as vice-president of the PUK alongside Chassot. Ryser was elected to the National Council in 2019. As a member of the Economics and Tax Commission, banking matters are more on his agenda than Chassot. The 31-year-old had already called for the CS case to be processed and for a system change in March.
Central parliamentary caucus head and national assembly member Philipp Matthias Bregy was accused of having ambitions for the PUK presidency, but Valaisan did not run for the prestige job and sent Chassot, Heidi Z’graggen and Leo Müller to the race. Among Chassot’s campaign friends in Parliament is Christine Bulliard-Marbach. Two Freiburg-based politicians sit on foreign policy commissions – a member of the Chassot Council of States, a member of the Bulliard-Marbach National Council.
Last year, the duo campaigned for a federal package of measures for the media. While rejected by the Swiss electorate, the canton of Friborg supported the media package with over 57 percent of the vote. Damiano Lepori, head of the Mitte party in the canton of Friborg, can count himself lucky to have a well-known and distinguished politician like Chassot in his ranks, and his support has been rewarded. With the full support of Leporis, Chassot is again nominated for the Council of States.
Family
Isabelle Chassot was born in Morges in the canton of Vaud, the youngest of three children and was raised in Granges-Paccot FR. His father, Hubert Chassot, is head of HR at the Saint-Prex glass factory, and his mother, Maria Chassot, née Bichler, is a hairdresser. from Austria. So Chassot grows up speaking two languages. The family always spends their holidays in Austria with relatives. After primary school in Granges-Paccot, she attended Heilig Kreuz college in Freiburg, where she graduated from high school. Chassot is a practicing Catholic and Christian values are important to him. Your participation in the CVP – today Die Mitte – is therefore welcome.
Career
Chassot studies law in French and German at the University of Friborg and after graduating works there as an assistant to Professor Nicolas Michel. He was admitted to the bar in 1992 and worked as a lawyer for several years. At the age of 26, he was elected to the cantonal parliament of Friborg in elections to the Grand Council. He stands out for his competence and dedication and receives a request as a personal assistant from Bundestag Arnold Koller.
He will continue in that role for Koller’s successor, Ruth Metzler-Arnold. During this time she learns about federal politics and how federal government works and can network in Bern. In 2001, Chassot became a Member of the Council of State and head of the Education, Culture and Sports Directorate. A few years later, the CVP politician took over the presidency of the Swiss Cantonal Education Directors Conference.
Then his career takes a new turn: Alain Berset, then Minister of Culture, appoints him as BAK president. In 2021, he won the Council of State seat from the SP politician Christian Levrat, with about 63 percent of the vote. Good election results run like a red thread through the Freiburg native’s career, which earned him the nickname “La Reine Isabelle”.
competitors
What role did the Federal Council play in the emergency merger? Isabelle Chassot will try to clarify this. Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter will be the focus of investigations, as will her predecessor, Ueli Maurer. This also applies to Thomas Jordan. Criticism has been voiced recently that the Chairman of the SNB recognized Credit Suisse’s liquidity crisis too late.
Has the Financial Market Authority (Finma) also stared blankly for too long? Chassot will definitely take a closer look at the work of Finma boss Marlene Amstad. While private sector companies are not subject to parliamentary scrutiny, one or another of the bank managers will receive mail from Chassot, as interaction between officials and “third parties” will be controlled.
Culture Club
As director of the Federal Office of Culture, Chassot has built a Swiss-wide network in the cultural sector – in particular, he maintains contacts with filmmakers such as Matthias Bürcher, the filmmaker who was then responsible for promoting the region. Your dedication to Lex Netflix is highly appreciated by artists and producers alike. From September, Chassot will become President of Cinéforom, a foundation that supports filmmaking in French-speaking Switzerland. Filmmaker Joëlle Bertossa is his assistant.
As early as 2018, Chassot has campaigned for more women in the film industry and signed a relevant charter of the Swiss Women’s Audio-Visual Network with a number of politicians, activists and artists, as well as Locarno Film Festival President Marco Solari. Chassot has also been on the Board of Trustees of the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation for one year. “It was pure luck,” emphasizes the Foundation’s President, Urs Ziswiler. As a Catholic, Chassot is, of course, involved in the refurbishment of the papal Swiss guard barracks in the Vatican, along with former President of the SNB, Jean-Pierre Roth, former Federal Councilor Ruth Metzler-Arnold. Mirabaud partner Thierry Fauchier-Magnan and others.
Source :Blick
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