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In court room 301 of the Federal Parliament, the parliament’s judicial commission made a first decision today on the fate of the country’s main investigator. It was unanimously decided to summon Michael Lauber to the hearing. Already on May 20, you have to contact the Commission. The commission has experts from the Federal Office of Justice, which is actually the starting signal for its removal procedure.
The decision was preceded by a long legal discussion. Many questions remain unanswered because impeachment proceedings against a federal prosecutor have never taken place in Swiss history. The judicial commission listened to experts from the Federal Justice Office and a law professor, said the commission’s president, Andrea Caroni (40). Representatives of the supervisory authority of the federal prosecutor were also invited.
Everything must be done correctly
Lauber can expect a crushing defeat if Parliament decides on his professional future. And in all probability it will.
The Commission will only formally decide whether to open the impeachment procedure after the hearing. The FDP Council of States and attorney Andrea Caroni (40) take great care to ensure that everything is legally correct. That brings him criticism within his commission.
After all, the decision to go after Lauber out of office is a political one, commission members say. For them, criticism of the supervision of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office (AB-BA) already shows that Lauber’s gross or even deliberate negligence, or even intentional intent, was caused by a serious breach of official duty with his meetings, which was not they registered, with Gianni Infantino (50), the head of the Fifa World Football Association. This is the condition for a procedure to fire the principal investigator.
Because with these secret meetings, Lauber could suspend all FIFA proceedings that the federal prosecutor’s office is currently carrying out. A prominent case has already broken out with the summer fairy tale case of possible corruption in the setting of the 2006 World Cup finals.
Cracked defeat expected for Lauber
It is still open whether Parliament will decide in the fall or only in the winter. One thing is clear: Before the end of the year, the United Federal Assembly should end Lauber’s time as a federal attorney in open consultation.
Several MPs, who briefly confirmed the federal prosecutor in office at the end of last year, now claim they have lost patience with Lauber. Given that a large part of parliament now perceives Lauber as a burden and fears increasing damage to Switzerland’s reputation, the deselection should be overwhelming.
