- According to media reports, the information leaks from the Department of Home Affairs during the pandemic are becoming an issue in Parliament.
- The business control commissions (GPK) of the National Council and the Council of States want to decide on their course of action next week.
However, there are limits to the business audit commissions (GPK). Because the supervisory commissions would have to respect the ongoing proceedings of special investigator Peter Marti and the separation of powers, said Prisca Birrer-Heimo (SP / LU), President of the National Council’s Business Audit Commission (GPK) at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency.
Against this background, Birrer-Heimo said that the GPK had to answer the question of hearing the Federal President and Health Minister Alain Berset and other people involved in the information leaks according to media reports. “First the judiciary has to do its job.
Media reports are a topic nonetheless. In their meetings next week, the two GPK wanted to explore which aspects of the case could be examined with regard to the separation of powers and the ongoing proceedings, said Birrer-Heimo.
The GPK are currently dealing with indiscretions anyway. The two commissions included leaks from meetings of the Federal Council in their testing program in 2022. Hearings have already taken place, said Birrer-Heimo. But the work still goes on.
Berset: “Illegal leaks”
“Switzerland at the weekend” reported on Saturday that Berset’s former head of communications Peter Lauener had repeatedly sent confidential information to the “Blick” publisher Ringier about the Federal Council’s planned Covid measures. According to the newspaper, it relied on e-mails and interrogation protocols that were available to the editors.
Berset commented on the report on radio RTS in western Switzerland and spoke of “illegal indiscretions”, which he did not want to comment on. You have to let the judiciary continue to work.