Bad Jositsch, good Jositsch: The amazingly flexible Jacqueline Badran

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In politics, agility is an advantage. Zurich SP national councilor Jacqueline Badran (61) has just shown everyone the master of this discipline.

When her comrade Daniel Jositsch (58) wanted to become a federal councilor last year, Badran complained about the Zurich Council of States on the short message service X. “Just that it is clear,” she tweeted on November 11, 2022, “if Jositsch was on the list, he would also be elected: because the SP would then lose two percent of the voters,” therefore he must be prevented.

According to Badran, a federal councilor Jositsch would weaken Swiss social democracy. This is about the strongest accusation that a leftist can publicly make to a fellow party member. The next day she doubled down: “Jositsch would not be elected because he was ‘the best’, but because it would harm the SP in terms of voter shares.”

Are there two Badrans?

A year later, observers are amazed. In an interview with the Tamedia newspapers on October 14, she took a completely different tone. “I think he would make a good federal councilor and I will certainly try to get him on the ticket.”

Is this a smart maneuver or just a slip of the tongue? Are there even two Jacqueline Badrans? The reformed bully goes even further: Jositsch is “popular among the population”.

We learn: Yesterday Jositsch would have cost the SP two percent of the votes in government, today he is “popular among the population”. The new harmony between the two alpha animals is downright moving, even Hollywood-esque.

Opportunities for the seat of the Council of States

What’s behind the turnaround? The solution to the puzzle is as banal as a B-movie: if Daniel Jositsch were elected to the Federal Council in December, his seat in the Council of States in Zurich would be vacant.

Who would be in pole position for the SP? Of course, the National Councilor who received a sensational 109,992 votes in the last federal election and became the undisputed panache queen: No other politician received more support from other parties than she did. Her name: Jacqueline Badran.

When asked, the politician sees things very differently: she denies that she has ever had ‘harsh criticism’ of her comrade, and even today she is not enthusiastic about him. Instead, Badran warns that “innuendo journalism” should be avoided.

However, in her answer to the SonntagsBlick she omits one point: the subject of the Council of States.

Source:Blick