Editorial about the wobbly FDP seat: Tactics with Thierry

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In three days the elections for the Federal Council will be over. This is good news, because what journalists and politicians currently expect from the public cannot be sustained much longer: will Parliament elect Gerhard Pfister to the government instead of Ignazio Cassis? Or Martin Candinas? And would you rather have Eva Herzog than the SP nominees – or perhaps Daniel Jositsch? Is Jon Pult too young? Beat Jans te Bazel-like? Are both too left-wing? (Are candidates for the SP Federal Council even allowed to be SP members?) Reality fades into a puzzle of secret plans. The general need for drama reveals the political neglect of wealth.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs is in the eye of the storm. Ignazio Cassis is not a visionary, but he shows an astonishing willingness to accept it: while the federal Bernese front and back bench are currently devoted to the groundbreaking question of whether he should be voted out, the Ticino resident is working hard to ensure to ensure that the state government accepts the negotiating mandate that will be adopted with the EU in the coming weeks. Others, like his predecessor Didier Burkhalter, were broken by this dossier.

Cassis, on the other hand, always defied criticism from right and left – and even survived Thierry Burkart’s liberal ‘friendly fire’. The man from Aargau has the rank of captain in the army. In politics, he used the tactic of targeting his own ranks until he was elected president of the FDP. In 2021, in a guest article in the CH Media newspapers, he called for a “destruction of the exercise” in the framework agreement, disowning both the then party leadership and his own EDA head.

Cassis loves Italian folk songs, Burkart dressed in a hard rock T-shirt. With the force of a heavy metal riff, the fall elections knocked his FDP into the wall. The Liberals dropped back to fourth place in parliament. Today, Burkart is the most ailing president of all parties in the Federal Council. The second FDP seat in the government is also shaky because he once used political maneuvers to secure it.

Nevertheless, there is a good chance that Cassis will be re-elected in three days. It’s nice when Wednesday morning is over.

Source:Blick