Daniel Jositsch is considering a candidacy for Berset’s successor: for Jositsch, the Blick survey is “also a decision factor”

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At the end of this year, Federal President Alain Berset (51) will resign from the state government. It is already clear to the Blick community who should follow his seat: SP councilor Daniël Jositsch (58). And surely. More than half of the 29,000 voters voted for the Zurich resident in the online vote. On Sunday evening, 51 percent want to see him in the Bundesrat.

Jositsch distinguishes itself from an illustrious field of participants. National Councilman Jon Pult (38, GR) was second with 10 percent. State councilor Matthias Aebischer (55, BE) is in third place with only 8 percent, together with district president Beat Jans (58) from Basel, who is considered the favourite. Blick questioned more than a dozen potential candidates.

Result counts

For Jositsch, the result is a display. “I’m in the middle of the decision-making process and a result like this is certainly a deciding factor,” he told Blick about a possible candidacy. “It does matter if you have the feeling that people can imagine your candidacy. And it certainly doesn’t have a negative effect.”

One thing is clear: Jositsch would like to become a member of the Federal Council. This became apparent half a year ago with the successor to Simonetta Sommaruga (63), in which the SP preferred an all-women ticket.

“It’s Not a Popular Vote”

“Of course I’m interested in this position,” he says now. “But these are not popular elections, completely different rules apply in the Federal Palace.”

He does not want to make the final decision until it is clear how the appointment process will proceed and what requirements the parliamentary party will set for the candidates. The SP will decide this in September at the earliest, when a new party chairman has been elected. The Kantonalzürcher SP also has a say in who they send to the race.

SP faction as a crucial obstacle

For example, one of these unwritten rules is that parliament chooses candidates from the official ticket – and not wild candidates. For Jositsch, this should be the decisive hurdle: Will his own faction put him on the ticket?

Rather not, believes political scientist Claude Longchamp: “Jositsch gambled away six months ago”, he refers to the quarrels surrounding the Sommaruga successor on Blick TV. Longchamp therefore only attributes opportunities to Jositsch to outsiders.

But if the Council of States of Zurich manages to get hold of the official ticket, it has good cards. Last December, he received 58 votes in the first round despite not being on the ticket. Jositsch does not believe that the gossip has hurt him. “It was an objective and transparent discussion,” he emphasizes. “I played by the rules and accepted the faction decision – it wouldn’t be any different this time.” (Russian)

Source:Blick