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He ran for the center party and failed to reach Federal Bern: Vontobel’s former boss, Zeno Staub. According to estimates made on Sunday evening, the center increased its share of voters in Switzerland by 0.8 percent. In the canton of Zurich, the party reached an electorate share of over 2 percent. This rise helped the Zurich center gain three seats on the National Council; however, Zeno Staub is not among those selected. The additional two middle seats were won by others, including Zurich center co-chair Nicole Barandun. In his election ads, he presented himself as someone close to the business world.
Zeno Staub speculated about his plan to become the top candidate on his own economic sub-electoral list. It is called the “Medium Economy and Society AWG”. “NZZ” described them as a “somewhat obscure and possibly hopeless sub-group” of the party; This subgroup is virtually unknown outside and consists of only five heroes. Staub and his fellow fighters cannot form this group for now. He recently told the “Handelszeitung” that he needed about 30,000 votes to win the election. But these were not enough, as the results showed the bar was raised even higher: Yvonne Bürgin, in third place, won the third central National Council seat in the canton with 35,169 votes.
Staub is currently in Japan on a business trip. In a statement on Monday night, he congratulated his cantonal party on its success and reiterated that he wanted to continue. “I will continue my commitment as Chairman of the Economy and Society Working Group,” he said in his statement to the “Handelszeitung” newspaper. Following his resignation as boss of Vontobel next April, he will devote “half” of his time to politics and society.
Staub is not the only economic giant running in the federal elections this year. With one exception, they could not buy tickets to Bern. The “Handelszeitung” shows which entrepreneurs are participating, who is qualified for parliament and who is not.
Ypsomed CEO Simon Michel qualified for the National Council. Representatives of the companies and the umbrella organization Economiesuisse are pleased with the success because its class is in short supply in parliament. In the last legislative session, only Ems boss Magdalena Martullo Blocher and outgoing State Council member Ruedi Noser represented this conglomerate, which provides the majority of corporate taxes; This figure means over 10 billion francs per year.
Michel was elected to the Economiesuisse committee just four weeks ago. This committee controls the umbrella organization. This offer of commitment now seems to be paying off for the umbrella organization, as thanks to this election it will have a first-class representative in the Economic Commission of the National Council.
Michel is the founder of the six hundred-member pro-binary Progressuisse movement. “We aim to support Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis in the negotiations,” he recently explained. The entrepreneur sees them as a counterpoint to noisy EU rivals in the business camp: Autonomysuisse, led by logistician Hans-Jörg Bertschi, and Kompass Europa, led by Partners Group shareholders.
Solothurn company Ypsomed is known almost worldwide for its injection pens for insulin patients. It is traded on the Swiss stock exchange. Its turnover is around half a billion francs. More than 2,200 people find work, mostly in Switzerland.
Michel could not be reached for comment Sunday evening.
Candidate for the EPP in Zurich: real estate data entrepreneur Donato Scognamiglio. It is said that he spent the most money among the candidates; We are talking about over 300,000 francs. Now he couldn’t do it. The EPP lost voter share across Switzerland. This share also shrank in the canton of Zurich where he ran.
It is unknown whether he will run again in four years. Meanwhile, he is engaged in politics on behalf of the party in the Zurich cantonal parliament. He could not be reached for comment Sunday evening.
Scognamiglio is known as a pioneer of real estate data in the real estate and banking sectors throughout Switzerland. He is the founding partner of the company Iazi. Together with Wüest Partner, the company is the leading provider of real estate valuation and grading for investment property portfolios.
St. Gallen entrepreneur and St. Üger Frischkäse, president of the St. Gallen cream cheese producer, failed to run for the FDP. As an entrepreneur, Üger is successful, as a portrait recently published in “Handelszeitung” shows. The company in Oberbüren SG recently reported 430 employees and sales of 330 million francs. SME has strengthened itself in the mozzarella market, among other things, and is now expanding into the spreadable cream cheese sector.
This market is highly competitive and foreign multinationals are setting the scene: Cantadou from France’s Bel Group, Tartare from France’s Savenica and fresh cheese hero Philadelphia from US multinational Mondelez. Zuger is trying to get a share of this internationally competitive market with its Swiss brand.
It is unknown whether he will run again in four years. The company boss could not be reached for comment Sunday evening.
For many years he was the right-hand man of former Minister of Economy Johann Schneider-Ammann (FDP). Since leaving the federal government, he has been director of Swissmem, the association representing the Swiss export industry. In this role, he represents 1,350 companies and 320,000 employees, including 20,000 apprentices. Stefan Brupbacher looks like Mister Werkplatz Switzerland. He wanted to move this vote to the parliament, but he could not. The FDP did not win any seats either in Zurich or in the whole of Switzerland.
Brupbacher, who started the FDP list in the Zurich canton in 11th place, ranked 8th according to voter shares.
Those responsible for the “Handelszeitung” did not want to explain why the cantonal party had placed it so far behind. Cantonal party chairman Hans-Jakob Bösch, who is also a candidate and ranked higher on the list than Brupbacher, declined to comment. FDP Zurich is sending five MPs to Bern. Brupbacher currently ranks third in the cantonal party votes.
He leaves open the question of whether he wants to run again in four years. He declined to comment Sunday evening.
In general, business representatives can look forward to an orderly election. Most of the previous candidates who ran again managed to re-enter parliament. The best known among them is Magdalena Martullo-Blocher (SVP). Gallen’s Marcel Dobler (FDP), Fabio Regazzi (trade union president/centre), Gerhard Audrey (Greens) and Jacqueline Badran (SP) are among them. Two of the 44 representatives, including Aargau mill entrepreneur Hansjörg Knecht and IT entrepreneur Ruedi Noser, left voluntarily in December. Along with Michel, two high-profile business representatives will join us for the winter session.
Schaffhausen entrepreneur Thomas Minder (independent) must participate in the second round of voting. He missed an absolute majority in the first round of voting, which is extraordinary. An SP candidate in the canton received more votes than Minder.
In Geneva, dentist and chain practice entrepreneur Michel Matter (Green Liberal) lost his seat. He ran an expensive campaign as a candidate for the Council of States and is now failing even in the National Council. In Thurgau, engineer Kurt Egger (Greens) was not re-elected. The national failure of the Green Liberals and the Greens swept both left-wing green entrepreneurs from their seats in parliament. Popular elections are often a lottery for representatives from the business world who are accustomed to success.
Source :Blick
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