Banning spitting, assisting masturbation, banning beer pong: these are the ten grotesque advances

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The Zug Green National Councilor Manuela Weichelt (55) advocates gender-neutral road signs. Blick readers are outraged. “What a happy country we must be when we really have such problems,” writes Henry Loosli. And Ramon Brandler says, “Thought with many advances, it couldn’t be more pointless and useless, but oh halätz, it’s possible.”

And also from fellow parliamentarians comes ridicule. “The Greens are not that good for any Gugus,” tweeted FDP national councilor Christian Wasserfallen (41).

Although Weichelt’s parliamentary colleagues should perhaps remember the saying about the glass house and the stones. Politicians of all persuasions, with their ideas and demands, make people laugh and frown again and again. Blick shows the top ten most bizarre developments of recent years.

Biodiversity is of paramount importance. With the Greens, but also with Defense DDPS. Weapons and shooting ranges must become real “treasures of biodiversity”. Léonore Porchet (33), a Green from Vaud, is disturbed by the fact that roads often cross the site. Pollution and noise would have a huge impact on flora and fauna. In 2022, she proposed converting all weapon and shooting ranges into places for non-motorized traffic. The question is whether road traffic on shooting ranges is actually the biggest noise problem.

The marriage has been valid for everyone in Switzerland since the beginning of July 2022. For Swiss Post, this is no less than a “milestone on the road to equality”. It has therefore issued a special stamp. That was a thorn in the side of Ausserrhoden SVP Landsraadslide David Zuberbühler (43). This is a misuse of state funds for propaganda purposes – “division in society”, he said. In an inquiry to the Federal Council, he therefore proposed that the Swiss Post withdraw the stamp and destroy the remaining circulation. Here’s treachery: she didn’t.

Swiss German must also be admitted to the National Council in the future, demanded the St. Gallen SVP National Council Lukas Reimann (40) last year. Swiss German is experiencing a “cultural boom”, including on social media. Reimann is convinced that it would be good if the National Council cultivated the dialect more. This would also do justice to the diversity of Switzerland. He also sees no problem for French and Italian speakers in the Council: the interpreters must also be able to translate from the dialect instead of standard German.

Former Bernese Greens National Councilor Regula Rytz (61) also made it to the top ten most eager supervisors. The question arises whether Mrs. Rytz lives in a windowless bunker. Because the ex-chairman of the Greens asked the Bundesrat for a report on the topic of “daylighting in residential buildings” and what regulations and measures could be used to increase it.

When it existed, the Federal Alcohol Administration was very strict about the prohibition of distilled spirits advertising. According to article 42b paragraph 3 let. g AlkG, advertising of distilled water is prohibited on “packaging and articles of daily use not containing or not related to distilled water”. That means: According to the interpretation of the alcohol administration, spirits may only be advertised on carrier bags if spirits are actually transported in the carrier bag. The transport of other goods is prohibited. However, this can happen if a bag is used several times. The alcohol administration therefore threatened to ban all paper carrier bags and plastic bags with advertising for spirits from 2015, because there is a risk that other items can also be transported in the corresponding bags if used multiple times.

Speaking of alcohol: in the canton of Neuchâtel, the government has done everything possible to prevent excessive consumption. The Commerce Police Act, which came into effect in 2015, prohibits happy hour after 7 p.m. It is also forbidden to play drinking games such as beer pong in pubs. According to the canton, an engaged player could be tempted to increase his alcohol consumption in a “fighting mood”. In 2019, the responsible State Councilor Laurent Favre (50, FDP) received a “rusty paragraph” for this, the award for the “stupid, most superfluous law”.

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The state-backed organization Sexual Health Switzerland wants to make masturbation a problem – including in schools. It would be a “declaration of war” on a “long too long taboo”. Shame and the feeling of doing something forbidden are still too strong. State-funded masturbation courses for children are going too far for the SVP. The Thurgau Reich Councilor Verena Herzog (66) would therefore like to turn off the organization’s money tap.

It is not known whether Jura former SVP national councilor Dominique Baettig (69) had a beer pong evening when he submitted one of his motions in 2010. But he argued for nothing less than a Greater Switzerland. His goal: to amend the Federal Constitution to allow the following territories to apply to join the Confederation: Baden-Württemberg (D), Vorarlberg (A), Alsace (F), Aosta (I), Jura (F), Bozen (I ), Savoy (F), Varese and Como (I). Those regions suffered from their national and European ‘classe politique’, Baettig wrote in his motion. He explained at the time that his idea had to be seen in the context of a time when Switzerland was under great pressure from the EU due to banking secrecy. An enlarged Switzerland would give the country more weight.

What has the Federal Council not done to protect the Swiss population against the corona virus? Shops and restaurants were closed for weeks. Public transport is limited to a minimum. borders closed. But that was not enough for Lucerne SVP Landsraadslide Yvette Estermann (56). To protect herself even better against the virus, she also wanted the Federal Council to ban “spit on the floor” – and hoped for fines for the really indecent behavior. The Bundesrat saw no urgency in this, because such punishments are presumed to be a matter for the cantons and municipalities. “Speezing” in public is already banned in many places – and fined accordingly. For example, in Uster ZH it costs 40 francs, in Lausanne 100 francs.

The advance is already 13 years old, but still the undisputed winner of the most bizarre claims: the left-wing National Council of Vaud, Josef Zisyadis (67), then called for a nightly TV break between midnight and 6 a.m. . His reasoning: the brain needs sufficient relaxation. Today, in the age of streaming services, the question seems even more absurd. In his defense, it must be said: Netflix and Co. were still in their infancy at the time. (she, sf, oco, dba)

Source:Blick

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