Crown and federalism: this is how the conflict between the Federal Council and the Zurich government arose



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The Federal Council invaded the residents of Zurich with strict Covid rules. Research shows: You talk to each other, but you don’t understand each other.

Harmony still reigned: Natalie Rickli (SVP) and Alain Berset (SP) during a visit to a nursing home in Zurich on April 30, 2020.

Harmony still reigned: Natalie Rickli (SVP) and Alain Berset (SP) during a visit to a nursing home in Zurich on April 30, 2020.

Photo: Ennio Leanza (Keystone)

At the beginning there is a confidential Phone call between Bern and Zurich. And the question: if you already have the phone, how can you talk to each other? S.ORthat half of Switzerland gets confused a bit later? Did you enter a dead zone?

Monday, December 7, 2020. Silvia Steiner, Zurich District President, and Natalie Rickli, Health Director, receivedaI got a call from Berna. Simonetta Sommaruga and Alain Berset, Federal President and Minister of Health, are concerning. For weeks wsick the number of Covid infections in Zurich does not decrease. Hospitals are filling up. In Berset’s eyes are local measures too weak. In the surroundings of the Federal Council sprIcht one of the “cotton candy measures”.

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