According to media reports, the Ministry of Home Affairs (EDI) information leaks are becoming a problem in parliament during the pandemic. The corporate audit committees (GPK) want to decide on their course next week. However, you have limits.
respect separation of powers
Because the oversight committees should respect the ongoing procedures of Special Investigator Peter Marti and the separation of powers, Prisca Birrer-Heimo (SP/LU), President of the National Council GPK, said on Monday at the request of the Keystone – SDA news agency.
Against this background, the GPK had to answer the question to hear the Federal President and Minister of Health Alain Berset (50) and others involved in the information leaks, Birrer-Heimo said of the accompanying demands. “First, the judiciary must do its job.”
GPK already for leaks
Still, media reports are a topic. In their meetings next week, the two GPK wanted to explore what aspects of the case can be investigated in relation to the separation of powers and the pending proceedings, Birrer-Heimo said.
The GPK is currently dealing with indiscretions anyway. The two committees included leaks from Federal Council meetings in their testing program in 2022. Hearings have already taken place, Birrer-Heimo said. But the work still continues.
intake logs
“Switzerland over the weekend” reported on Saturday that Berset’s former head of communications, Peter Lauener, had repeatedly sent confidential information about the Federal Council’s planned Covid measures to publisher Ringier, which also publishes Blick. According to the paper, it relied on emails and interrogation protocols available to the editors.
Berset commented on the report on radio RTS in western Switzerland and spoke of “illegal indiscretions”, which he declined to comment on. You have to let the judiciary do its job. (SDA)