Debate on faster easing: the Federal Council has the population on its side



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The majority of the National Council urges the Federal Council to open restaurants and leisure activities quickly. But do voters want that at all?

Most of the population is in no rush to relax: View of the shores of Lake Maggiore in Ascona, Saturday, February 27, 2021.

Most of the population is in no rush to relax: View of the shores of Lake Maggiore in Ascona, Saturday, February 27, 2021.

Photo: Francesca Agosta (Keystone)

800,000 people have a part-time job, several hundred thousand are unemployed. “And these people want to go back to work,” SVP parliamentary group leader Thomas Aeschi said recently on the TV show “10 to 10”. He continued to receive corresponding correspondence, DThat is why the bourgeois parties wanted to put pressure on the Federal Council: it had to open faster than expected.

But does the population want that too? Like the majority in the National Council, do you want to quickly loosen protective measures? This Wednesday it approved a declaration in which it demands that the Federal Council open restaurants and leisure facilities on March 22, regardless of the epidemiological situation. Or does the majority of the population follow the more cautious line of the Federal Council?

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