Pierre Maudet case: Swiss FDP calls for resignation

Maudet denies the signature

In this situation, the leadership of the national party was only the call to resign. Gössi had already planned this step last week by indirectly asking Maudet to resign. Nobody even considered starting to persuade Maudet to resign, a meeting participant said on Wednesday. Gössi informed Geneva after the meeting, the council's decision by telephone. The jury made a political assessment, she told the media. With regard to the judicial proceedings, Maudet's presumption of innocence continues to apply. The Geneva Board of Governors faces criminal proceedings.

Maudet kicked the values ​​of the Swiss FDP, said the party's president. She does not understand his behavior. In recent days he had also angered party leaders because he had initially responded to the invitation sent to Bern by a cancellation. He played cat and mouse, you can hear. It is possible that the decision of the FDP Presidium in Geneva to take a stand and ask Maudet to withdraw has contributed to the fact that the Governing Council has still not complied with the request of the FDP Switzerland. Alexandre de Senarclens, President of the FDP Geneva, was also invited to Berne.

At the beginning of the meeting in Bern, Maudet refused to sign a "declaration of honesty". The NZZ had a preview of the document. In this document, he should commit himself to "cooperate fully with the board of directors of FDP Switzerland", to clarify the truth and to make his own responsibility for all facts and circumstances known. Maudet would have justified his refusal by not having received the declaration in advance. Moreover, it was available only in German. His no nothing did to reduce the gap between him and the party leadership.

August 8: Pierre Maudet speaks at the meeting of the FDP party in Geneva. As head of the Department of Security and the Economy, he was at the helm when in December 2015, due to a hint from abroad, the level of the economy was high. terrorist alert had to be increased. (Image: Salvatore Di Nolfi / Keystone)

August 4: Pierre Maudet and his rival, the National Council of the FDP, Ignazio Cassis, meet at the "Political Dinner" on the occasion of the Locarno Film Festival. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone)

August 4: The candidate now in view of the Swiss Federal Council on the path of "Political Dinner". The young Pierre was already twelve years old in politics. In 1990, he wrote a letter to the mayor of Geneva at the time asking him to create a skate park. The skatepark has become a reality. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone)

June 15: Young politician at an event preceding the nomination of the candidate for the election of the Federal Council. (Image: Martial Trezzini / Keystone)

June 14: Pierre Maudet attends the inauguration of the new Bombardier CS300 model of the Swiss International Air Lines in Geneva. (Image: Salvatore Di Nolfi / Keystone)

April 25: Pierre Maudet discusses security issues with the press and the director of the cantonal police, Philippe Bertschy. (Image: Magali Girardin / Keystone)

April 7: Secretary of Defense Guy Parmelin (please) Throw the spade with Pierre Maudet. A military barracks is to be built on the outskirts of Geneva, Meyrin-Mategnin. 68.5% of Geneva residents voted in favor of relocating the city center. (Image: Martial Trezzini / Keystone)

February 21 in Geneva: Pierre Maudet supports the "Papyrus" operation. The canton of Geneva regulates people without paper if they meet certain criteria. Minister of Justice Simonetta Sommaruga has endorsed the project. (Image: Salvatore Di Nolfi / Keystone)

January 26: Pierre Maudet participates in a press conference in Crissier on the reform of corporate taxation (USR III). In an interview with the French daily Le Temps, Maudet said that there was a huge educational need. (Image: Jean-Christophe Bott / Keystone)

October 14, 2014: Pierre Maudet examines a pilot project monitoring the Pâquis district in Geneva. Federal Councilor Maurer does not have a global vision of current threats, wrote Maudet in a 2011 report on security policy. (Image: Jean-Christophe Bott / Keystone)

April 26, 2012: As Minister of Environment and Security at the FDP State Council, François Longchamp, at Palexpo. (Image: Martial Trezzini / Keystone)

May 18, 2011: group photo of Geneva City Hall, with Pierre Maudet in the middle. (Image: Salvatore Di Nolfi / Keystone) To the article

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