In addition to the campaign for an independent and neutral Switzerland (AUNS), No to creeping EU accession and the business association against EU accession, the new association is going up.
The General Assembly in Bern elected Stephan Rietiker as chairman. This is a doctor and medtech entrepreneur from Zug. Former federal councilor Christoph Blocher led the founding act. He explained that it was good not to have someone from politics at the helm, but a practitioner.
Vice President will be Solothurn’s SVP National Councilor Walter Wobmann, who is stepping down before the next election. Blocher praised him as “the most efficient National Councilor”, after all Wobmann made the minaret and burqa initiatives a success.
Such a voter needs Pro Switzerland, because the new club ultimately wants to be successful in the interest of Switzerland. In general, Blocher Pro sees Switzerland as a combat organization.
The founding assembly elected the old national councilors of the SVP Adrian Amstutz (BE), Christoph Mörgeli (ZH) and Ulrich Schlueer (ZH) to the initially 13-member board. Piero Marchesi (TI) and Therese Schläpfer (ZH) are active members of the SVP National Council. Besides Schläpfer, Florence Sager-Koenig is the only woman on the board. In the course of work, the number of board members should increase to 15.
Werner Gartenmann becomes director, who previously held this position at Auns. The national-conservative Auns, who managed to organize a referendum on their own with more than 50,000 members, has fallen asleep in recent years. In the afternoon, Pro Switzerland wanted to decide to support Christoph Blocher’s neutrality initiative.
(SDA)