Old members should keep at the job search back

members of the Federal Council are not allowed to accept after retiring from office, immediately mandates in companies which have a close connection to her former Department, or important commissions of the Federal government. For such mandates a waiting period should be introduced.

The state political Commission of the national Council (SPK) holds on this matter, as the parliamentary services announced on Friday. You requested your Council, by 11 votes to 8, with one abstention, a Commission initiative to agree. The sister Commission of the Council of States had rejected them.

a waiting period is discussed for years. Had triggered the debate of the former transport and environment Minister, Moritz Leuenberger , shortly after his resignation from the government – in November 2010 – the construction company Implenia's Board of Directors. The construction company had a short time previously, the new Gotthard tunnel in Sedrun, pierced – that big project that was responsible for Leuenberger as Minister of transport. In 2013, Leuenberger returned to the group in the back.

in Front of the Zurich had already accepted other Old members of the controversial tasks, Ruth Metzler (CVP), the pharmaceutical group Novartis. The former agriculture Minister, Joseph Deiss (CVP) has a Board of Directors to the milk processor, Emmi, and Ex-Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger (FDP) of the UBS as a Chairman of the Board.

According to Leuenberger Doris Leuthard for new tasks undertook. She was Member of the Board of Coop, and to the 16. April 2019, will also be elected to the Board of the Coop, a subsidiary of Bell.

A template for the introduction of a waiting period, supported at the time of the national Council; and the Council of States spoke out against. Now, the SPK, the national Council has made a new start. A deadline not to call the Initiative. The waiting period should be limited to "a reasonable time", means it. (nag/sda)

Created: 12.04.2019, 17:12 PM