The SVP is upset. And how! The reason for the anger is your own Federal councillor Guy Parmelin (60) is calculated. The Minister of economy of the party to the case again and again in the back – so it is perceived to be so by many SVPler.
The last straw an Interview with the “NZZ am Sonntag has brought” about three weeks ago. Therein Parmelin spoke English and clearly against the termination Initiative, which comes in September, at the ballot box. The SVP-Federal Council called the referendum “a threat to our location.”
With the Initiative, the SVP wants to give up the free movement of persons with the EU. For years, she is working towards this goal. For the party, it is the main template for years – and, of all things, the kill Parmelin now.
“sin” par excellence “”
in Particular, want to let no one quote – in any case the party wants to make before the vote, a divided impression. And so the chances of the Initiative diminish. However, under the lid, the mood is quite the cook.
“That pisses me off. This is not easy,” says a parliamentarian on the outskirts of the summer session. Another speaks of a “sin par excellence”. No one understand what I have ridden Parmelin there.
members of the party leadership have taken Parmelin-to-face to the chest. Including party President Albert Rösti (52), as he said in the VIEW-Interview: “I expressed to my disappointment with his statements.”
“None of that is hard on party-line”
The spat exposes ruthlessly, that it was never love between the biggest Swiss party, and your first welschen Federal Council. “In the national Council, he was no artist,” says a former colleague. “Never really on the party line,” adds a second.
As Romand Parmelin was moderate in many of the topics more – that’s why it has chosen, Parliament in 2015 – and not the current Faction leader Thomas Aeschi (41) or the Ticino state councillor Norman Gobbi (43).
“Our candidate of choice and he was not sure”, say several SVPler behind his Hand. “We have nominated him just to be able to have a wide range to offer.” At the most, so at the time, the hope, could provide Parmelin for new SVP-voters in the Romandie.
SVP starts return carriages
But this hope has been dashed now. In the Federal elections, the SVP lost in the Western part of Switzerland even more than usual. What remains is disappointment. The relationship between Parmelin and his party has reached a low point.
What makes the SVP of their Federal Council clearly felt. In unusually sharp tone, she tore up in the past few weeks, several of his templates in the air. The proposed six billion for the EU research program Horizon was rejected as irresponsible fantasies – even though the Swiss research landscape benefits. But well, since it has the word EU.
But even of the agricultural reform in the former wine-growers, the SVP wants to know nothing – and calls for a Parmelin about the books. “You can look at the tough resistance against the templates of course return of the carriages,” admits a SVP-member of Parliament.
Mörgeli warms up to
Still, the chair of Parmelin is not – especially since no one deselect or to force your resignation can still. “If he holds back in the vote fight, will smooth the waters again sometime,” says a SVPler. “Shoot it but still against the limiting of Initiative, it is uncomfortable for him.”
What Parmelin then threatens, in the last “world week” reference. There is the old national Council and Blocher Familiar Christoph Mörgeli (59) warms up before. He accuses Parmelin, to have the party lied to. “Would have been pronounced Guy Parmelin 2015 for the free movement of persons, he would not have made it on to the Federal Council’s three ticket.” Since hard times to come for the first welschen SVP Federal Council.
