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Thomas Meier
![Former Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher in his castle in Rhäzüns GR.]()
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Former Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher in his castle in Rhäzüns GR.
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![The labor lawyer Thomas Geiser.]()
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The labor lawyer Thomas Geiser.
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Mara Truog
![Social security expert Ueli Kieser.]()
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Social security expert Ueli Kieser.
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![Magdalena Martullo-Blocher finds the discussion a]()
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Magdalena Martullo-Blocher finds the discussion a “storm in a water glass”.
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![Councilor Peter Hegglin heads the financial delegation, which is now deciding.]()
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Councilor Peter Hegglin heads the financial delegation, which is now deciding.
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The Federal Council had a difficult time deciding: are Christoph Blocher (79) entitled to the 2.7 million francs or not? The ex-magistrate who was voted out of office in 2007 applies for the subsequent payment of his pension, which he initially waived.
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But the waiver is not clearly regulated in the law. This problem triggered so much uncertainty that the Federal Chancellery had two legal opinions prepared at the same time, as research from the Sunday Look shows: One was provided by employment lawyer Thomas Geiser (67), emeritus professor at the HSG. The second was Zurich social security expert Ueli Kieser, lawyer and titular professor in Bern and St. Gallen.
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Not of the same opinion
Now it is rumored that the two contradict each other. Geiser, unlike Kieser, has some doubts about Blocher’s claim.
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His reasoning: A waiver is of a definitive nature, which is why there is no basis for the retrospective assertion of benefits. This would be different with future benefits, for example if an old Federal Council waived his pension, but was in financial distress and applied for a payment again.
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Did Blocher really do without?
Now it is disputed whether and how Blocher explained his waiver at all. Corresponding statements have been documented several times. Blocher himself refers to his statement in the “Tages-Anzeiger” 2008: “But I will not waive my legal claim.”
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The government has now passed the hot potato on to the financial delegation of the parliament.
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Both Geiser and Kieser were not available for SonntagsBlick. With reference to the ongoing proceedings, the Federal Chancellery does not even reveal what the two reports cost the state. Affair à suivre.
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SVP patron ripped offChristoph Blocher (79) has been cheated – at least that’s how the SVP patron told him on his internet show «Teleblocher» last Friday. “Before Christmas”, a small business owner and his wife came to see him. He complained that he had to fire employees. What the politician sent him “an amount”. But instead of putting the money into the company, the petitioner bought a Mercedes for 230,000 francs. “I believed his tears,” sums up the old Federal Councilor. And laughs at the same time.
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