Published on January 18, 2025 at 07:47. / Modified on January 18, 2025 at 07:49.
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A thousand members of the SVP stand up to sing the Swiss song, which vibrates the walls of the Albisgütli: the historic building of the oldest sports organization in Switzerland – the Zurich City Shooting Society. All the VIPs are there. There is Christoph Blocher, former federal councilor and patriarch of the party, who announced in song his “retirement” from the event in 2024, for which he had until now hosted the main speech. His successor at the microphone, the former national councilor and editor-in-chief of Weltwoche Roger Köppel.
But also former federal councilor Ueli Maurer (ZH), party president Marcel Deitling (SZ), national councilor and UDC fraction leader in the National Council Thomas Aeschi (ZG), national councilor Magdalena Martullo Blocher (GR), the Zurich state councilors UDC Nathalie Rickli and Ernst Stocker… The list is not exhaustive. Sarah Bossard, the partner of Alice Weidel, Afd candidate for the German chancellor and Swiss resident, is also in the room. But not the latter (it came in 2023). And then a non-native element attracts attention: the socialist federal councilor Beat Jans (BS), invited to present the “counter-argument”. He won’t have the easy part.
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