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On the test bench: Federal President Simonetta Sommaruga and Minister of Health Alain Berset.
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Thomas Meier
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The state government went on a trip together last week. The passing of the Covid law will not be a walk in the park.
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“State-bearing”: CVP boss Gerhard Pfister.
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STEFAN BOHRER
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Warning voices from left: SP boss Christian Levrat.
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There can be no question of normality. The increasing number of infections in recent weeks shows the country that the coronavirus is far from over.
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At the political level, however, the Federal Council is in the process of steering its crisis regime in an orderly fashion. The parliament should subsequently approve the Federal Council’s decided emergency measures and regulate the handling of the pandemic more clearly for the next two years. This would clarify in particular the far-reaching competences of the state government, the role of the cantons, but also possible entry restrictions for asylum seekers or financial aid for cultural workers.
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No walk for the Federal Council
It should go quickly, the parties only had three weeks to comment on the draft of the Federal Council’s Covid Act. The proposal will be on the councils in September. A walk for the state government will not, as the consultation responses of the parties, which are available on Sunday view, show.
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The opposition of the SVP is fundamental: it refuses to “provide the Federal Council’s emergency measures to deal with the Covid 19 epidemic with such a comprehensive legal basis”. The Federal Council, the SVP went on to say, had largely acted without the involvement of the Federal Assembly for a long time and is now giving itself “extensive powers again”. The party expects “that in future the Federal Council will in principle consult the responsible parliamentary bodies before deciding on specific measures”. The SVP also sees the danger that the Federal Council could misinterpret the law as a “blank check for a new lockdown”.
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Keep the law to a minimum
The design goes too far for the freedom. The FDP is not against the creation of this law as such, but it must be limited to “the strict minimum”, which is not the case with the text at hand.
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The left also reports state political concerns about the abundance of power of the Federal Council. The SP therefore demands that the law be limited to the end of 2021 and warns of possible restrictions in the asylum system. In principle, the party demands that the powers of attorney be specified. It does not want to support the draft in this form.
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The CVP is more conciliatory because it “stood behind the Federal Council as a party supporting the state during the crisis”. Nothing has changed about that. The Central Party is now proposing to create a legal delegation of parliamentarians for future extraordinary situations. These are intended to examine urgent Federal Council decrees before they enter into force.
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