Published on June 13, 2024 at 5:55 p.m.
An agricultural area treated with Roundup weedkiller. This is what the biodiversity initiative looked like at the end of its opponents’ press conference this Thursday in Bern. The representatives of the broad right-wing alliance which will defend the no vote on September 22 have torn the text to pieces: extreme, ineffective, this initiative would also tackle a non-existent problem and would harm the country’s agricultural production.
On the platform, heavyweights of federal politics: three party presidents (Gerhard Pfister for Le Center, Thierry Burkart for the PLR and Marcel Dettling for the UDC), elected officials representing economic associations very well connected to parliament (Jacqueline de Quattro, PLR national advisor and vice-president of the umbrella association for the economy of renewable energies and energy efficiency, Fabio Regazzi, advisor to the Central States and president of the powerful Swiss Union of Arts and Crafts (USAM ), Daniel Fässler, centrist senator, president of ForêtSuisse, Christine Bulliard-Marbach, national advisor of the Center and president of the Swiss Group for Mountain Regions, Erich von Siebenthal, a former elected official, president of the Swiss Alpine Economy Society ).
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