Frank A. Meyer – Column: Wow!

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These days you might read: “Without the Crown, there wouldn’t be much.” But also: “Federal Council for many things.”

And now what?

Well, Alain Berset was never bored. Not only because the air police forced him to land over France as a private pilot, or because he liked women who went beyond the forbidden zone of petty-bourgeois comments, or because he said completely ridiculous things about the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine. No, Alain Berset was an event through and through, with every appearance, bald attractive, rhetorically original, politically emphasized, educated comme il faut citizen. He has always done bella figura, recently even in Africa.

He ruled as it pleased those who were ruled to rule.

That’s why he got top marks from the people, despite the fact that he made mistakes, as every member of the state government does – to the delight of journalists at the Federal Palace.

So everyone is happy. And say thank you. And wondering how to do it. And with whom to continue. Be it red or green. Finally, something is really happening under the massive federal dome. Classic mega event.

Elections to the Federal Council – wow!

The fun revolves around the country and its people: around the future of Switzerland, which is guaranteed at the highest executive level by the Board of Directors of the Seven Equals, this unique in the history of world government that emerged from the liberal revolution 175 years ago.

So far it worked. In some ways. Which, given all the political injustice of all these decades, is quite normal.

Is it even possible to talk about perfection? Then one would have to take into account the year 1959: when the Federal Assembly first elected two Social Democrats. Why is this an achievement? Because it has since been run by a coalition of civic responsibility — not entirely unfairly mythically exaggerated:

“Magic Formula”.

What is so magical about this interaction of four not at all magical sides? your unity? are you against each other? your mess?

Exactly this.

Government rules – stumbling and stepping, hurrying and braking. Rarely in a hurry, rarely resting. Always obedient to the duty to govern the country contrary to the slogans of their own party or their own personal preferences.

Just bourgeois.

These last include the parties that carry the bourgeoisie as a political culture: the liberals, of course, the bourgeois primitive cattle, plus the SVP, wandering to the right again and again for a generation, but also the Christian Democrats, who always weighed the bourgeoisie with their skepticism, so that the cause , in the end, did not become too hedonistic, and, finally, the social democrats, who raised the artificial figure of Marx, the proletariat, to the status of a bourgeois, the guarantor of creative capitalism – a historical achievement, comparable only to the revolutionary role of the liberals.

The elections to the Federal Council are devoted to all this, in this case the election of a successor to Alain Berset. So they trade out
democratic substance, the highest that can be negotiated in a free society.

That is why the elections to the Federal Council are not a quantitative issue. So no: what percentage of voters do the greens have, alone or together with the green liberals? That is why the elections to the Federal Council are a qualitative issue. So, what party has enough bourgeois genes, well-mannered bourgeois social democrats or apocalyptic revivalist movements under the green banner?

However, it is also true that the Bundesrat collegium, which was never ingeniously conceived and therefore ingeniously created, contains forces that re-educate uncultured behavior into a mainstream mentality – or, in very rare cases, repulse and expel.

Alain Berset is still a federal councilor for six months. And he fits. Great.

Source: Blick