How the SVP had scolded him! The party even denounced Health Minister Alain Berset (50) as a “dictator”, as it was he who led the way in Corona times.
And until recently, the FDP warned parliament against electing a French SPlerin to the Bundesrat, because then the Latins would be over-represented in the state government. She recently said that the Latin majority was acceptable for a “period of transition”.
In fact, on December 7, next to the Bernese SVP man Albert Rösti (55), Elisabeth Baume-Schneider (58) was elected to the Federal Council. Not least because many thought SP magistrate Berset was likely to leave after his presidential year in 2023 anyway.
The eternal Alain
But far from that. As the newly elected Federal President made clear in the Blick interview, he intends to remain in office beyond the coming year. “I’m still full of energy and want to keep going!” he said.
So if a supposed dictator is in government for a long time and the German-speaking Swiss are to be ruled by a majority of Italians and one from Tessin, shouldn’t the bourgeois parties protest?
Suddenly not bad anymore
No! It remains to be seen which selection the SP will submit to the Bundestag at the end of 2023 in the confirmation elections for the Bundesrat, dismisses party chairman Thomas Aeschi (43).
And FDP chairman Thierry Burkart (47) explains that it corresponds to the customs in our country “that federal council members determine their own dismissal in principle”. It is also completely understandable that Federal Councilman Berset is not announcing when he will step down. “Since he is already in his twelfth year in office, I do not assume that he will remain a member of the Bundesrat forever,” says the liberal about the Social Democrats, who emphasized in the interview that he will be a member of the Bundesrat from next year. the Federal Council. the oldest in office, but at the same time the youngest member of the Federal Council.
Burkart also refers to the practice of parliament not to vote out previous federal council members without good reason.
Ordinary people are happy
Apparently the two top bourgeois politicians are satisfied. In the end, the SVP succeeded in taking over the important environmental and energy department with Rösti.
And thanks to Karin Keller-Sutter’s (60) department change, the Liberals are now in charge of finance. Should Berset continue to struggle with rising healthcare costs and the growing number of retirees.
In addition, it should not come as an inconvenience to the middle class in the 2023 election year that Baume-Schneider, a social democrat, now heads the Justice Department and is therefore responsible for the supposed “asylum chaos” that the SVP has always managed to manage. when the election date approaches.