Minister of Justice Karin Keller-Sutter on Saturday in Schaffhausen celebrated Switzerland’s concordance and ability to compromise in dealing with major crises such as the current corona pandemic for the national holiday. According to the speech, it drew parallels to 1918.
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At that time the Spanish flu raged, the country strike shook Switzerland and it was also the year when the proportional representation law was introduced in the National Council. Plague and war at that time would have fueled the confrontation and not the compromise. Switzerland’s internal peace was on the brink. The proportional representation law was then jointly responsible for the development of the country to a modern democracy and the concordance.
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Across the political divisions, our parents and grandparents would have created a state that was healthy and strong enough to protect those whose lives are at risk and those who support their operations in a crisis like this year had to close or lost their job.
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Carry out incisive measures
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The cohesion has shown itself impressively in the past months. For example, when the population of cantons such as Schaffhausen was willing to share in radical measures to protect the entire population, although they were far less affected by the corona virus than Ticino or French-speaking Switzerland.
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Strong institutions and a strong economic foundation are central, and with it the will to nation and cohesion. It is not the extremes that have led the country through various crises and tests since 1291. According to Keller-Sutter, Switzerland is only a success story because the various political and social forces have so far managed to “get together again and again”.
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Don’t endanger bilateral
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“Decisions with a sense of proportion” are also in demand on September 27, when the sovereign has five federal documents, Keller-Sutter took the opportunity for a federal advertising spot. The termination of the free movement of people, as required by the SVP and Auns limitation initiative, endangers the bilateral agreements with Switzerland’s most important trading partners.
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In the corporate responsibility initiative, the magistrate spoke out against “special rules for Swiss companies”. They would put them at a disadvantage in international competition.
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