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Health insurance, health insurance, AHV: these major problems can be found in Alain Berset’s Home Affairs department, which is now being evacuated. Who will have to deal with these issues in the future and what rules apply to departmental division? Does Blick have the most important answers to this?
Will the new federal councilor Beat Jans follow Alain Berset to the Interior Department?
Not automatically. The seven departments will be reallocated by the newly constituted Federal Council. Government members are expected to divide the departments among themselves this week during an informal, private meeting without minutes. The new government will officially start work on New Year’s Day. The departmental division will be formally confirmed at the first meeting of the Federal Council in January. Before his election, Jans told Blick that the Internal Affairs department was his dream department.
What rules apply to the allocation of departments?
The distribution is based on the principle of seniority: the members of the Federal Council who have been in office the longest may express their wishes first. Guy Parmelin (SVP) starts as the oldest official. He was elected to the state government in December 2015. This is followed by Ignazio Cassis (FDP) from Ticino, who has been in power since 2017. Then follow Viola Amherd (middle) and Karin Keller-Sutter (FDP); both have been federal councilors since the beginning of 2019. Then it is the turn of Albert Rösti (SVP) and Elisabeth Baume-Schneider (SP), who were newly elected a year ago. The New Beat Jans must take what’s left. He said after the election that he was open to all departments. So far, he has not had any discussions with the members of the Federal Council about the departmental elections.
What happens when there is disagreement?
If no agreement is reached, the Federal Council votes. Then the majority decides, and that is civil. The government tries to avoid such votes as much as possible so as not to deny the individual members. When the previous Karin Keller-Sutter (FDP) moved from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of Finance last year, the state government found an amicable solution within two hours. There are also known meetings where everything was sealed within fifteen minutes.
Is Ignazio Cassis moving to the Ministry of the Interior?
The members of the Federal Council have so far kept a low profile. Nothing is known about the desire to change before the next payment round. There has long been speculation that Ignazio Cassis (FDP) could move to the important Ministry of the Interior after more than six years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Foreign policy is generally regarded as an area of relatively little influence, but with some potential for frustration.
In the event of a change, the doctor and former health insurer would be responsible, among other things, for the health care system – an area that has been undisputedly in the hands of the social democrats for twelve years. A change in Cassis, Berset’s official deputy at the Ministry of the Interior, would be an indication that the 62-year-old would certainly want to remain in the Federal Council for several more years.
What about the other former federal councilors?
Observers believe that a major castling is rather unlikely: Guy Parmelin (SVP) apparently feels comfortable in the economics department. In 2018 he transferred to the key department. No one expects him to switch domains for a few more years at the age of 64. Karin Keller-Sutter (FDP) took over the finances a year ago at her own request. It is also considered unlikely that Albert Rösti (SVP) and Elisabeth Baume-Schneider (SP) will change again a year after their election. Nothing is known about whether Valais Viola Amherd (middle) wants to change departments during her presidential year. A year ago, according to her own statement, she stayed at the Ministry of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport “out of conviction”. This was seen by his predecessors as an unpopular entry-level department.
When did the last great castling take place?
The last major chair change took place in 2010, when four departments were given new heads. Before that, there had been no castling for eight years. Newly elected federal councilors always took over the departments of their predecessors. Before 2010, the last four-man castling took place in 1960, immediately after the magic formula was introduced.
What wishes do the parties have?
What the parties actually want, what they claim to want and what the preferences of their federal council members are are often not congruent. One thing is clear: the common people love the economy and finance. The latter are considered a key department because the heads can influence the activities of other departments through finance. The left favors the influential Ministry of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications and the Ministry of the Interior, which deals with social issues such as healthcare and pension provision. SP co-chairman Cédric Wermuth recently made no secret of his fears that the bourgeoisie could take control of the Ministry of the Interior after Berset’s departure. For him that would be a “horror scenario”. (SDA)
Source:Blick
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