Martin Pfister and the patchwork
Federal Council
Pure patchwork: With Martin Pfister the reality reaches the Bundeshaus
The choice of Martin Pfister also shows that the parliament has arrived in modern times in its selection criteria. Family models away from the Catholic standard are no longer an obstacle.
Pfister Patchwork family: Isabel Pfister, Gabriela Giacometti, Pietro Villa, Samuel Pfister, Martin Pfister, Cacilda Giacometti Pfister, Fabiola Weibel-Giacometti (from left).
« Patchwork is a form of textile technology in which the remains of different materials are used to make new textiles, » it says on Wikipedia. Patchwork is also when two families – or their parts – patch together into a new family. The new Federal Councilor Martin Pfister has such a family. Two « of his » four children are not « his » in the biological sense. They were brought into marriage by his partner.
How they live today around 6 percent of all children and adolescents in such communities that are dipped together, which are also called continuation families in beautiful statistics German. They have long since become a reality in our society.
There are places where it takes a little longer for the realities to arrive. One of them is the Bundeshaus.
In 1989 the parliament had the greatest concerns to vote for a Federal Council who lived in the concubinate, even though it was still married. And Franz Steinegger refused to move into the government. When choosing Ruth Dreefuss, it also played a role that her competitor Christiane Brunner was married twice, with five sons (own and adopted).
The desired unique selling point
And this time? No critical voices about the Pfister patchwork family. On the contrary: it even picked him up from his competitor. In the direct duel with Markus Ritter, both tends to be more conservative spirits, Pfister made it appear as urban and cosmopolitan. FDP Councilor Petra Gössi had advised Pfister in the run -up to the elections to peel out « a unique selling point » – and how many overlooked the fact that the Zug government council had long since had this with his family.
Pfister becomes Defense Minister
On Friday, the Federal Council made the department distribution in a new composition. There was no surprise: the Zug Martin Pfister takes over the defense department from his predecessor and center party colleague Viola Amherd. The other members of the Federal Council remain true to their previous departments. Federal President Karin Keller-Sutter (FDP) remains Finance Minister, Guy Parmelin (SVP) Minister of Economic Affairs, Ignazio Cassis (FDP) Foreign Minister, Albert Rösti (SVP) Minister of the Environment, Elisabeth Baume-Schneider (SP) Minister of the Interior and Beat Jans (SP) Minister of Justice. (CBE)
This also has to do with the naturalness, as Martin Pfister lives his reality. Not a big fermentation. It's just normal. And yet it – who lives in a 1200 -soul village above Baar – makes him look much more modern than his competitor Ritter.
The fact that his wife is a Brazilian was also never the subject of the usual nicks in the run -up to the Federal Council elections in the few weeks. When choosing Ignazio Cassis, there were still debates that a double citizen did not belong to the government. Finally, Cassis gave up his Italian passport.
Pfister, on the other hand, reports deeply that they sometimes prevailed at home « Brazilian conditions ». Not even the isolationist circles in the Bundeshaus therefore made an evil saying.
The grandson in the stands
This may also be related to the fact that Tracy Jans already has another Federal Council partner foreign roots. A few years ago that would have been unthinkable.
It would also have been unthinkable that a grandson pursued the choice in infant age in the stands. That also happened in Bern this Wednesday. The ten -week Joah should not have understood to be fully understood what his grandfather is doing for an office, but at least he was there. And he also received – so much parliamentary correctness must be – his own access badge.
