This Friday evening, Guy Parmelin, Minister of the Economy, chose to put away his gloves and not participate in the SRF’s flagship political show, “Arena”. It will do the same for its French-speaking counterpart “Infrarouge”, on RTS.
The Vaudois avoids the debate so as not to risk being reminded of its previous positions on tenancy law, explains its spokesperson Urs Wiedmer. However, this is precisely the theme of today’s show. As a reminder, Guy Parmelin has been personally opposed since the beginning to the two projects submitted to the vote on November 24, which facilitate the termination of leases. But the Federal Council must officially support them. If the UDC politician plays the game during press conferences and state communiqués, he refuses to defend a point of view that does not correspond to his own on a television show, where he is not formally obliged to go .
His colleague Elisabeth Baume-Schneider had made the opposite choice during other elections, recalls the German-speaking press. She had agreed to defend the government’s position on television, including when it was opposed to hers. “The fact that Guy Parmelin opposed these modifications in Parliament and that he is not participating in the campaign is essential information so that the population can freely form an opinion on the two votes of November 24,” underlines with opportunism the Swiss Socialist Party.
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