Swiss Government to Lose Longest-Serving Minister at Year End
- Interior Minister Alain Berset joined executive in 2012
- Social Democrats expected to retain seat after October vote
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Swiss Interior Minister Alain Berset said he will exit the government in December, when his one-year rotating presidency ends.
“After 20 intense years in federal politics, 12 of them in the Federal Council, and after dealing with the Covid crisis, the right moment for this step has come,” Berset said on Twitter on Wednesday. In a press conference in Bern he clarified that his departure shouldn’t be seen as a resignation, but simply as him leaving at the regular end of his term.