The nervousness is high on the staff of the FDP in the Federal Council Ignazio Cassis . After the election victory of the Green has formed rapidly a consensus: Should apply to the Greens in December to claim a Federal Council seat, would probably be of the Ticino as the target of the attacks is firmly. SP-President Christian Levrat, for example, repeated constantly that he was “satisfied” with the services of the Federal Council, he once had a “trainee” reviled.
The tension was Cassis, as he on Wednesday in the Studio of TeleZüri sass. He pulled out to defend the Ticino map. On the question of why he, and not other Federal councillors, had become a target, responded to Cassis: “I am first of all, anders, I come from a different culture, a different language. That’s a difference, and the differences are disturbing too,” said the Ticino, in order to continue: “It is always for the variety, we are now trying to be in the Mainstream, then you will feel in a comfort zone well. This could be a justification.”
“The German part of Switzerland has not yet noticed that she’s wearing compared to the Ticino, a historical debt”Marco Solari, the Director of the Locarno film festival
there is Significantly to understand, Cassis, without saying it directly, that he understood miss and wrong to feel judged, because he is Ticino. This Interpretation is also hear in the environment of the foreign Minister. It’s hard to say whether the choice of tactical calculations depends on one or The other member of the Federal Assembly is likely to be ready for the Green a of the FDP in the Bundesrat to sacrifice, but would stop at the removal of a to be noted are back.
The Jöö effect
Complains Cassis, right? Yes, find Marco Solari, the Director of the Locarno film festival and a longtime Ticino tourism President. “The German-speaking Switzerland still has a fine picture of the Ticino,” he says. “In the North of Cassis has triggered a Jöö effect, as he said at his inauguration, he think, speak, write and dream in Italian. He has meant to the deeply serious.” A deep North-South border between the mentalities across Europe prefer. Cassis is used, for example, to provoke discussions, because these were in the South part of the solution, the joy of life. In the North, not to be understood. “Ignazio Cassis is an excellent Federal Council,” says Solari.
“In Cassis is always mentioned that he is in Ticino.”Marco Romano, CVP-Nationalrat
The Italian-speaking Switzerland is entitled to a seat in the Federal Council, they should be weakened, neither economically nor culturally humiliated and politically humiliated. “The German part of Switzerland has not yet noticed that she’s wearing compared to the Ticino, a historical debt,” says Solari. “Three centuries under the German-Swiss Bailiffs have left a mouse arms of the Canton of famine, without roads or schools. Colonial policy in the pure state.”
“He has a big heart”
For CVP national councillor Marco Romano, it is a blessing to have a Ticino the Federal Council. “Cassis starts to slowly have an effect, in the administration will be re-used more Italian,” says Romano. (Read here how the CVP is a party to a green Budesrat.) Criticism he trains to Cassis for the European and Italian policy. But also he finds, Cassis’m going to often judged according to origin and language. “I’ve never heard that in the case of a decision of Ueli Maurer, someone has commented: typical of Zurich,” says Romano. “In Cassis is always mentioned that he is in Ticino.”
An example is provided this week, Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter, President of the foreign policy Commission. In the “Rundschau,” she explained Cassis’ trouble in the office: “He has a big heart, and the heart is sometimes also a bit on the tongue. And he is a Ticino, he has emotions, you can feel it always.”
“interfere with His policy”
From an Anti-Ticino-Reflex in the Federal policy, in contrast, the assignor in Ticino, the FDP Council of States Fabio Abate felt nothing. “But it is clear that the Ticino must integrate into the reality of the Federal house, and not only for one’s own problems to fight,” he says. In the Other, he was sure, that Cassis will be re-elected.
Cassis during a debate in the Council of States in spring of this year. Photo: Peter Klaunzer (Keystone)
Cassis should stand by its policy, instead of in the role of a victim because he belong to a language minority group, criticized the political scientist and former Ticino SP-politician Nenad Stojanovic: “It is his politics that bother.” However, it would be “in need of explanation”, if a Ticino, the Federal Council would be voted out of office after only two years in office, after the Canton was not previously represented for 18 years, finds Stojanovic. He refers to the fact that the Federal Italy, have dessert at a disadvantage speaking on various occasions.
The Dilemma
faced with a Dilemma will be Greta Gysin, if the Green attack in December, the office of Cassis. “The representation of minorities, in particular the language, is very important, you must not underestimate,” says the newly-elected green Ticino member of the Swiss Parliament. “But it is also a fact that the Greens have strongly and the FDP is übervertreten in the Federal Council.” If the FC Basel or the green heart louder beat, she did not know now.
Created: 15.11.2019, 18:51 PM
