Alex Kuprecht: “Federalism on the brink causes pandemic…”

On the sidelines of the Basel Conference, the President of the Council of States spoke in a video about his idea of Switzerland and of the division of powers

The Conference on Federalism 2021, organized in Basel in spite of the pandemic of COVID19 a five-year period after the previous happening in Montreux, was an opportunity to think about the system of division of powers that historically informs the Swiss Confederation.
Alex Kuprecht, President of the Council of States, member of the Centre Democratic Union and representative of the Canton of Schwyz, from whose name the term “Switzerland” originated and one of the oldest democracies in Europe, did so as well.

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“Federalism has reached its limits during this crisis,” admitted the Swabian democrat, a staunch federalist, who could see himself as a kind of “deputy first citizen” of the country alongside his Bernese party colleague Andreas Aebi.
But what does this form of government actually mean for Switzerland? And what distinguishes the Council of States from the National Council, that is, what differentiates the representatives of the people from those of the cantons.
Not only that: how did the highest representative of the States/Cantons get into politics?
The media service of the Federal Assembly has conducted an extensive and comprehensive interview with Alex Kuprecht remotely from Bern and made it available in English as well as in three of Switzerland’s four official languages: German, French and Italian.

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