Weltwoche: Martin Wagner resigns as Chairman of the Board of Directors
Martin Wagner, a Basel-based business and media attorney, is stepping down as chairman of the board of directors of *Weltwoche*. He said he realized that his election campaign and his role on the *Weltwoche* board were incompatible.
According to Weltwoche publisher and editor-in-chief Roger Köppel, Wagner had offered his resignation at the end of August in order to be able to concentrate fully on his election campaign as FDP national council candidate in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. According to SDA, Köppel confirmed a corresponding report by the online portal of the Aargauer Zeitung on Friday. In legal matters, Köppel intends to continue to seek advice from Wagner and his firm. He has always had an excellent working relationship with Wagner, he says.
Wagner was also publisher of the Basler Zeitung for a few months last year. He recently hit the headlines with criticism of the SVP and its mastermind Christoph Blocher. Blocher is poison for Switzerland, and the "Blocher principle" is inhumane, he said in an interview with Sonntagsblick.
