Last but not least: The win-win-win situation

 
High-noon on television: On Friday evening, Federal Councillor Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf and former Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher will face each other in the Arena on Swiss television. It's about the naturalization initiative. Blick was already looking forward to the TV encounter and ran the headline "Hate duel in the Arena". However, the confrontation has been defused somewhat because Widmer-Schlumpf is not standing with the opponents of the initiative in the debate, but in a third position. This was created on Wednesday, more or less by Federal Council decision, for the members of the national government in Arena broadcasts. As the "muzzle initiative" is also currently pending, the national government probably does not want to expose itself too much. Widmer-Schlumpf's switch from the "opponent" position to a "neutral" position was naturally a talking point. However, the SVP's shuffle within the "supporter" position also caused a stir, as they suddenly put Christoph Blocher up for the originally intended SVP National Councillor Adrian Amstutz. In his blog, SF editor-in-chief Ueli Haldimann has now explained in detail why he accepted both reshuffles. You can read it at
http://cr.blog.sf.tv/p97.html
. In any case, his conclusion is that because SP National Councillor Jositsch has now slipped into the "opponent" position for Widmer-Schlumpf, the situation is a "win-win-win" so to speak: the SVP has Blocher in, Widmer-Schlumpf has been somewhat removed from the SVP barrage and with Jositsch, the left now also has a voice. Haldimann did not say that television would also benefit from this duel. But you can guess: this is a win-win-win-win situation.