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He was the first. And stayed alone. Gerhard Andrey (47), member of the Freiburg National Council, is the only Green available to attack his party’s Federal Council. On Friday afternoon at 3:30 p.m., the leader of the Green Party, Aline Trede (40), and the head of the examination committee, Adèle Thorens Goumaz (51), will nominate him as an official candidate.
Who are the Greens-Winkelried who are running for office and want to challenge the FDP for a seat in the Federal Council, even though he has little chance?
The bilingual Freiburg native grew up as a farmer’s son and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter, later became a computer scientist and is now an IT entrepreneur with his own company. 220 people work here and generate a turnover of 23 million francs per year.
Not a nice candidacy
Andrey is married, has two children (13 and 16) and lives in Granges-Paccot FR. He receives the support of his family for his candidacy for the Federal Council. “I also made the decision dependent on her. “It’s a great pleasure that she has my back,” he says of his upcoming adventure.
Andrey is considered a pragmatic politician who is respected across party lines. He is not a conniving man and with his CV he certainly has the qualities of the Federal Council. And yet his chances for a seat on the committee of seven remain manageable.
However, Andrey does not accept this argument. He says, “Saying something is impossible is a good excuse not to dare.” With their candidacy, the Greens want to prove their claim. “We Greens are running to get a seat.”
Make better progress with the Greens
For him it is clear: “We Greens have been postponed for years, if not decades.” His party achieved the second best result in its history in the elections, while the FDP continued to lose. With 14 percent of the votes, she is only entitled to exactly one seat, not two. Now there is a political and arithmetic claim to a green seat.
The general elections in December offer the Federal Council parties the opportunity to take concordance seriously. “I am not fighting against a party, but against a part of the voting population that is not represented in the government,” says Andrey.
There he would like to commit himself to intact nature, living together based on solidarity and a sustainable circular economy. Because these are the foundations for a good life – for the current generation and everyone who will come. The man from Freiburg is convinced: “If the green forces were finally integrated into the government, Switzerland would make better progress.”
Close cooperation with FDP
But the FDP and SVP already made it clear last week: they don’t even want to listen to the Green challenger. Andrey dismisses this as political talk. But he also says: “I work very well with colleagues from all parties, especially with the FDP.”
In fact, he developed the new edition of the E-ID together with FDP state councilor Marcel Dobler (43) from St. Gallen. With the resignation of Solothurn FDP national councilor Kurt Fluri (68), a boost for the frozen Russian state funds was pushed through the National Council. With Matthias Jauslin (61, national councilor of the Aargau FDP) he introduced a Swiss Green Investment Bank.
And with the departing Zurich liberal Doris Fiala (66), the digital expert initiated the Cyber parliamentary group. The aim of this is to network politics, industry and business around the subject of cybersecurity.
“All this shows that I like to collaborate constructively,” says Andrey. Even with your political opponent.
Source:Blick
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