On Monday, the Lobbywatch association published a ranking of the largest Pöstli fighters in parliament. Top: Central National Councilor Ruth Humbel (65). The woman from Aargau has 21 paid mandates. The ranking was well received by the media – Blick also reported on it.
The health politician defended himself: the Lobbywatch list is wrong. She only has seven paid mandates, Humbel said. However, if requested, Lobbywatch maintained its evaluation, which was based on its own research, including on the basis of the trade register.
Sorry on Twitter
Now Lobbywatch has admitted an error. Seven of Humbel’s mandates were recorded as paid, although these were honorary posts. The club apologized on Twitter.
Such “embarrassing” errors do not match the demands they place on their own work, as they state on the website. They would analyze and adjust their operations.
What the club insists, however, is that Humbel has more than seven mandates. This can be explained: while the politician, for example, counts her four posts at the health insurance company Concordia and the five at the Zurzach Care group of companies as one mandate, Lobbywatch finds that each post is a separate mandate.
The new office king is the FDP Schilliger
However, a new king of office has to be elected: it is FDP National Councilor Peter Schilliger (63) from Lucerne. He leads the ranking with 18 paid mandates. Four MPs share second place: Graubünden FDP Member of the Bundestag Martin Schmid (53), FDP National Councilor Beat Walti (53), Obwalden Middle Member of the Senate Erich Ettlin (60) and SVP Member of National Councilor and Federal Councilor each have 16 paid offices Albert Roesti (55).
Ruth Humbel shares third place with her party chairman Gerhard Pfister (60) with 15 new offices.