Directed by red balloons which had to come inside and Enjoyed from the train station. The Assembly of delegates of the SP in Goldau, SZ, Hit the base before the Federal elections in the autumn, a Saturday in the parish centre Eichmatt, for Lunch there is Alpine macaroni, 16 francs, please early, buy food coupons. To talk
there are a lot of. The SP wants to break in the autumn, the right-wing majority in the Federal government in Bern. In terms of climate protection it needs for deeds instead of words. And to the EU weapons Directive, on the 19. May will be a vote, says the party, of course, Yes – also because of the important relations with Europe, such as SP-President Christian Levrat performs in his speech.
group calls for change of course
But the SP and Europe, because everything is still so clear? The Assembly of delegates is in the sign of intra-party tensions. Debt, the framework agreement with the EU, with the leadership of the party is due to concerns for the protection of Wages so unhappy that they seemed to approximate temporarily the sceptical camp, argued with the SVP. The party members, where in the world is open, Europe-friendly course of the SP and the trade unions Insist on wage protection, even an unsympathetic national acquis recognize safeguarding bothers.
a few days Ago, the former SP has changed-national councillor Chantal Galladé, surprisingly, the green-liberal, allegedly, because the attitude of the SP to the EU agreement, and the “Juso-style” of the party. And a Pro-European group of SP-politicians calls to a SRF report urgent a change of course in the framework agreement of their party.
President Christian Levrat digested the “turbulent week”, as he says in his speech before the delegates. He will not talk about the party change from woman Galladé, but short on the topic of “diversity of opinion in our party” and the SP-attitude towards Europe. It will immediately silence in the hall, the long tables, the Canton flag of the delegates.
“We will not allow ourselves to columns”
The variety, says Levrat, is absolutely alive and, Yes, the SP Switzerland is one of the most heterogeneous left parties in Europe. He refers to France and Germany, where fighting among realists and Fundamentalists, Bobos, and Proles are, however, much harder and bloodier. “In Switzerland, they would all have a seat.” The party will stay United in their diversity and not let themselves be columns, not the media and not of the “private career plans”.
That the question of the EU framework agreement has the party, denies the President. For the SP, but both should be: “Yes to Europe and Yes to the protection of Wages.” In principle, it was “in agreement with the CVP and the FDP,” says Levrat: “We want a framework agreement.” Only the present paper is, unfortunately, unfinished, on protection of Wages and citizenship of the Union is, as Federal councillor Ignazio Cassis have said himself, not negotiated. The paper was a disgrace.
The SP wants to negotiate, offers newly re-open Hand. In this paper Levrat had said this week: “I’m doing specifically, the FDP and the CVP of the offer: let’s Talk together!”
The delegates are from the coffee, two more Mature gentlemen. He felt in the question of the framework agreement split as the party itself, says Bruno Achermann from Nottwil LU: “Europe is important, and it’s not just that the SP threatened together with the SVP of this agreement.” At the same time, but red lines at the protection of Wages it was true, don’t give up without a fight.
The colleague beside him who wants to remain anonymous, agrees: the Outcry of The unions was important, “it has used these pop”. But now he was glad for the signs of readiness to talk, which came from the party leadership. “We need to talk.”
Toxic statements in the Arena
The tensions in the SP were on the eve of the Assembly of delegates, the subject of the SRF program Arena. Especially Daniel Jositsch, Zurich, SP Council of States, and Daniel Lampart, chief economist of the Confederation of trade unions, went hard. Jositsch warned darkly that soon, no Jobs, and wages in Switzerland are more as that you could protect as a trade Union, even if it is harmful to the bilateral relations with the EU.
What was the trade unionists toxic against the teachings of the “Lord Professor” fight back. With such anti-elitist rhetoric of the left Ex-politician Chantal Galladé was again confirmed. They accused the trade unionists, to sound like the SVP. Happy, laughing in between, sass, Thomas Matter of the SVP. His party is helping the dispute.
“the noise in the SP is not a Problem,”
So it’s not supposed to be. In his speech in Goldau SP-President Levrat distance to the favorite enemy of the SVP was looking for. A clear priority for the SP next year, the termination of the initiative of the SVP, the objectives against the free movement of persons. Is it to fend off as an open, Pro-European party. Levrat is looking forward to clear positions. The SP say Yes to Europe. The applause thunders.
“We are a belligerent party,” says Federal councillor Simonetta Sommaruga in her appearance in Goldau. The noise in the SP is not a Problem, but a sign of openness and debate. In the case of the SP, not only a have to say. “Heated discussions also generate heat,” says Sommaruga. And devotes the Rest of her speech time to the climate change. What emerges in addition to the one or the other party is really important, should not be forgotten. (Editorial Tamedia)
Created: 02.03.2019, 14:29 PM
