Doris Leuthards change is messy

The media release of the Stadler Rail reads like a justification. "With her candidacy for next year, Doris Leuthard, to comply with the politically required waiting period of one year," writes the railway Builder, in the Knowledge that this influx raises questions. 16 months will be elapsed since your Amtsende, if the Ex-Minister of transport will be chosen next April in the Board of Directors. This is long enough?

"No tact"

Outgoing Federal councillors can choose their employers freely. In a code of conduct that applies for 2014, however, is: "members of the Federal Council have the choice of mandates, the required due care and attention." If conflicts of interest could arise, you should not.

"I don't want to ask, that they procured for Stadler Rail secret papers and your Position take advantage of it."Balthasar Glättli, national councillor (Green)

The code of conduct is for the green national councillor Balthasar Glättli waste, such as Doris Leuthard evidence. "I don't want to ask, that they procured for Stadler Rail secret papers, and their Position exploited", says Glättli. But conflicts of interest are not here wegzureden. As a long-standing head of the Department of the environment, transport, energy and communications (Detec) is Leuthard have been in the strategic planning of the orbits involved and have built up many contacts and Knowledge.

"This exchange does not speak for you, and it is ugly."Barbara Stone, SVP national councillor

Glättli could imagine the car with the new Parliament a proposal to provide a grace period for Federal councillors in the law to anchor. Also SVP national councillor Barbara stone man at the other political Pole – criticised the lack of tact of Doris Leuthard. "This exchange does not speak for you, and is ugly," says Steinemann.

Federal councillors received 220’000 Swiss francs a pension per year and would not need to make your office a great business career. Stone man sees the responsibility of clearly in the case of Doris Leuthard, and not at Stadler-CEO and SVP politician Peter Spuhler. "For him, the obligation is of course an advantage," she says.

SVP national councillor Roger Köppel has, meanwhile, been concrete demands. Federal councillors should be allowed to accept your resignation for at least three years with no mandates, he writes on Twitter.

Many initiatives

If a Federal Council adopted a sensitive office, followed several times already political initiatives. SP Federal councillor Moritz Leuenberger did choose shortly after his resignation in the Board of Directors of the construction company Implenia. The construction company that had a short time before the Gotthard tunnel pierced under Leuenbergers Aegis. From the former criticism, the Lex Leuenberger resulted. The national Council was for a two-year mandate, prohibition for the Federal councilors, the Council of States, however. As Doris Leuthard, moved this spring to the Board of Directors of Coop and Bell, called for parliamentarians to back a cooling-off period, but failed.

"can make your network a company available, which is important for Switzerland as an industrial location."Martin Candinas, CVP-Nationalrat

representatives of Leuthards party, the CVP , see now, no conflicts of interest. CVP-Nationalrat Martin Candinas finds it "gratifying" that Stadler was able to win the Rail, Doris Leuthard. "So you can make your network a company available, which is important for Switzerland as an industrial location," he says. Leuthard had to do as a councillor directly with the railway builders. The SBB and the other transport companies are not made the tenders, the Detec.

The Marco Romano looks so: "Doris Leuthard today has nothing to do with the leadership in the Department," he says. The CVP national Council, opposed the Lex Leuenberger, and said in Council: "decency not by law prescribe." Christoph Blocher, at that time, the national Council, replied: "What do you think, what goes on in a Federal Council, if, after his election, a Bank President, runs over and says: "you are an excellent Federal Council, such people we always need, even if you resign in the future?"

read now more about why Peter Spuhler wise is, by bringing with Doris Leuthard another politician in the Board of Directors.

Created: 21.11.2019, 20:27 PM