what would happen a week Ago, as you already knew, you said nothing. Out Of Courtesy. From Reverent. From Restraint.
Now that the Public knows officially what will happen, as many still say nothing. Out Of Courtesy. From Reverent. From Restraint.
Today is a day to Christian Levrat thank you for his twelve years at the party top (Mattea Meyer). Today, the key is to recognise the achievements of Christian Levrat (Cédric Wermuth). Today thanks and respect due first of all to the President (Flavia water fall). Everything else: later.
they were hardly to be distinguished, the statements of the most promising candidates for the succession of Christian Levrat, President of the social democratic party. On the social media, the same people offered a true firework of thanks and greeting messages. Hashtag: Merci Christian.
Unstable condition
the reason for the praise was an inevitability. Levrat was selected on Tuesday for the “look” and his Freiburg-based master sheet “La Liberté”, to proclaim what is suspected, all: He will not be standing after twelve years as the SP President, in the next April for re-election. This had been decided at the beginning of 2019, and no reaction to the bad election result.
His party starts at 11. December with the official candidate, is elected to the Congress from the 4./5. April 2020 in Basel. Because Roger Nordmann group will remain in-chief, after years of male double top from the Romandie, a woman from the German part of Switzerland in the focus of the search. (Read here, who brings to the successor Levrats in position.)
the new Head of the party – or, at best, the new Co-presidency – will take over a party in a shaky state (for the analysis). After the historic defeat in the election, various forces within the SP call for a General direction of discussion. In a guest post on the former SP national councillor Susanne Leutenegger Oberholzer writes that the party must not only set in terms of personnel, but also in terms of content, and a new organizational structure. To men-heavy, to strong from the West of Switzerland, the leadership was dominated. “It’s not that all the important decisions en petit comité to be taken.”
“in the middle”
Question: General discussion. Now. Tamara Funiciello, newly elected national councillor and former President of the Juso, calls, for example, a “feminization” of the party. “It’s just, feminist claims to present. It is difficult and painful, they themselves implement.”
“The result of a mitteten social democracy we see today everywhere in Europe.”Tamara Funiciello, SP-national councillor
The party must be, as a Whole, movement-oriented – the basis of campaign in these elections was a good start. “Of course, it needs a certain width within the party. But it would be a massive mistake to back in the middle.” Exactly this was the error of the European social Democrats. The original sin of Gerhard Schröder in Germany and Tony Blair in England. “The result of such a bearing in mitteten social democracy we see today everywhere in Europe.”
Funiciello, which is not itself available, wants a fight election for the succession of Levrat. She wants a clear direction, a program content and staff. “Six weeks ago this would have been a tough dream job. Today, the new wife has to pull the cart out of the Mud. This takes quite a bit of eggs, courage and a Plan.”
Funiciello is Supported in your response to the left of the Juso. The new party leadership must demonstrate “bold Alternatives” to defend instead of “rotten compromises”, it said in a Communiqué. The new Bureau had to demonstrate a comprehensive left-wing Alternative. “The only way we can run the SP from the cul-de-SAC,” says Ronja Jansen. On demand, the new Juso-President clarified this “impasse”: Too often, the party focused on short-term goals, instead of focusing on the big picture. “Both the claims of the climate – as well as the women’s movements is: This can only be implemented when the economy is more democratic.”
“Yes, not to the left”
Quite different sounds to the right party sash. The elections have shown that a stronger on the left of course is the wrong way to go. Pointedly left candidates would tend to cut off poor, says the gloss, fully re-elected the Zurich Council of States Daniel Jositsch, the politicized at the right party sash. For Jositsch the new Chairman must act primarily “integrative” and should not come clearly from one of the party wings. The national Council members Cédric Wermuth (AG) or Mattea Meyer (ZH) were capable politicians, but to clear to the left-trade Union wing of the party, says Jositsch. “For the Bureau, you don’t come from this basic question – just how about I come as a representative of the social liberal wing in question.”
the elections to the Bureau for the direction of the dispute between the left and right of the political wing? No, says Barbara Gysi, St. Gallen, national councillor and Vice-President of the SP Switzerland. The content of the SP Switzerland is positioned correctly. Unchanged, the SP needs to edit, especially the question of distributive justice.
“The party leadership must be female: I wish me a woman on top.”Barbara Gysi, SP-national councillor
For Gysi, the new party President, not the content, but the strategic and managerial qualities are essential: “you must be against internal and external enforcement is strong and is a mix between Thinker and team player to be.” And: “The party leadership must be female: I wish me a woman on top.” While Gysi think to yourself. Clearer than all of the other Papabili already brings you now their interest: “I’m considering a candidacy seriously.”
Banger look to Europe
The all-important question for the SP: How can you prevent them from suffering the same fate as many of their sister parties? In the last years the social-democracy collapsed in many European countries dramatically. In France, in Greece or in the Netherlands, it was pulverized, almost, in Germany, Italy or Austria, it is in existential crises.
the SP Switzerland Is traveling in the same direction? The elections, with a historically bad result was just a cyclical shock? Or this result is the beginning of a descent?
How can the SP to prevent you from suffering the same fate as many of their sister parties?
Hardly a SP-a politician, this is not a question that is of concern, is hardly a SP-a politician, not a therapy proposals would have to be left! A wider! Younger be! Female be! Back to the movement!
This cacophony of ideas in a fruitful debate, to deflect – this is exactly the Chance the Bureau’s choice, says Jon Pult. The 33-year-old from graubünden, was elected to the national Council, as Tamara Funiciello is crucial that it arrives in Basel for the battle choice. After the election defeat in the party’s disorientation. From this, the party could only find out “if there is a constructive competition with multiple options”. And this competition could only take place, if several of the candidate with specific concepts compete against each other.
in 2008, when Levrat was chosen delivery it is quite different. The Freiburg was the only candidate. If there were serious other interested parties, so Levrat agreed with them behind closed doors. A scenario that you can imagine in these troubled days in the SPnur difficult.
Created: 12.11.2019, 21:00 clock
