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SP co-chair Mattea Meyer has also distanced himself from Federal President Alain Berset’s phrase “war madness” in connection with the war in Ukraine and Western arms supplies to the country invaded by Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin is at least that livid, Meyer said.

“I don’t feel such a war frenzy,” said the SP-CO chairman on Tuesday in the previous evening’s “Tagesschau” on Swiss-German television SRF. In an interview with the “NZZ am Sonntag”, Berset spoke of a “war frenzy in certain circles”.

According to Meyer, it is Berset’s personal opinion. You personally and as party chairman do not share this. She also told her party colleague and Federal President that.

Of course, the events of the war are giving impetus to those forces that are fundamentally in favor of strengthening the military, Meyer said. And they would also try to take advantage of the situation and, for example, relax the guidelines on the export of war material.

The government is not acting coherently and is hiding behind neutrality, SP co-chair Cédric Wermuth told the NZZ on Monday. “I share Alain Berset’s desire to end the bloodshed, but neither his analysis nor the conclusions,” said the Aargau National Council of the online edition.

At the moment there is no perspective for negotiations. According to Wermuth, Putin has other goals, he is the only obstacle to peace. (dab/sda)