That Gerhard Pfister the liberals don’t like, is no secret. The President of the CVP Switzerland happens to be one of those Christian-Democrats, which are dominated today by the culture battle with the FDP. For Pfister, the main political opponent is not the SP and the SVP. The true enemy of the free mind, had caused the Catholic-Conservative in 1847, in the sonderbund war, a humiliating defeat is.

Now, 172 years after these events, is Pfister, the CVP-chief of the Central figure in the struggle for the Federal Council composition ascended. The 44 votes of its newly formed middle group will decide whether the FDP must be one of their two seats to assign on the Green or not.

big Pfisters aversion to the FDP in such a way that he – as a conservative politicians, on 11. December is actually writing with the far-left-Regula Rytz on his ballot? You don’t know it. What you but know: Pfister wanted the liberals at least stew.

it was His Plan, the free-thinking strategists on the choice of the CVP, Uncertain behavior – if possible until the Morning of the 11th. December. This impression won people, who have spoken in the last few weeks, with Pfister.

Pfisters threat

in order To have a credible threat to build up, has Pfister proposed on Saturday, according to Radio SRF, the green fight is a candidate Regula Rytz to the hearing request. Thus, the CVP would have signaled that Rytz’ choice for you, at least, an Option. However, Pfisters people have its strategy checked. The group decided to dispense with a hearing of Rytz. At the same time she announced that she would not choose Rytz “majority” (read here how to do the Green to the announcement have responded).

With the cancellation of the CVP group, to Rytz seems the Federal Council shall dream of the Green burst, before it really started. But for Pfister, the question of the Federal Council composition is not on the table. He wanted to convene a “concordance summit,” he announced in the “Saturday review” of Radio SRF. His declared goal: to invent with the other parties, a new magic formula.

Green get already seat

Pfister yourself a formula proposes, according to which each party per 35 national Council and Council of States seats claim to be a member of the Federal Council would have. In this logic, the Greens would get a seat, the FDP would have to secure a surrender, and possibly also the SP.

power Pfister, there is no clear announcement as to when the FDP a seat to assign. But you must do this, at least in the medium term, there is little to debate: “of course I’m already of the opinion that the FDP, like the CVP, it must according to the course of things, deal with them, assign a Federal Council seat,” he said in the “NZZ on Sunday”.

people, who have spoken in the last few weeks, with Gerhard Pfister, do not doubt that he enjoys it, to plagues, the FDP. But those who dismiss his proposal for a new magic formula as a mere party-political Ranküne, forget a story that happened before 16 years.

It was a very similar Situation as today. In the parliamentary elections, a party had won a landslide victory – not as now the Green, but the SVP. The CVP, however, was so far back that you had in the logic of the magic formula is definitely no longer entitled to two Federal councillors. However, Ruth Metzler and Joseph Deiss is not thought to resign – just like today, the FDP Federal councillors Karin Keller-Sutter and Ignazio Cassis.

The precedent of 2003

Gerhard Pfister, which had been chosen fresh in the national Council, and came in a group in a state of emergency. The CVP-people was very well aware that the attack of the SVP, Christoph Blocher, was dangerous. Nevertheless, the majority of them wanted to defend their members – no matter what the cost it. But not the whole group shared this opinion. The word huge Innerrhoden Ständerat Carlo Schmid proposed in the group meeting, from 29. October 2003, the unthinkable: The CVP should the laws of magic formula opportunities, and one of its two Federal councillors to withdraw. Metzler and Deiss, as Carlo Schmid, should be given an hour of free time, in order to agree. If you couldn’t make it, you should decide the group in their place, who must go and who can stay.

Schmid’s application was rejected by 33 votes against Smith, and so on. He was, however, supported at least four group members. One of the four was – Gerhard Pfister. His former vote Pfisters Proof today is: He who wants to customize in the year 2019, the magic formula of the new parliamentary majorities, was paid in 2003 to such adjustment is made ready, as his own party the price.

Today hardly anyone remembers this Episode. The Rest of the story, however, is known: a Few weeks later, Ruth Metzler of the Federal Assembly was voted out of office, Christoph Blocher, was the Federal Council. The FDP, by the way, agreed to at the time, the majority of for Blocher and against the CVP.

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Created: 25.11.2019, 08:57 PM