Last but not least: Economiesuisse unimpressed by social media activists?
Economiesuisse has ended its campaign against the CO2 Act and removed the list of supporting companies and associations published online on Friday. The social media activists see this as a success on their part.
The decision of the umbrella organization would have been noted with great satisfaction. Andreas Freimüller from Kampagnenforum.ch stated this in a communiqué on Monday. He had been at the forefront of the protest campaign against the list, which was mainly carried out on the social network Facebook. He sees the fact that the list has now been taken offline as Economiesuisse's reaction to the decisions taken in recent weeks by outdoor company Mammut and telecoms provider Sunrise to have their names removed from the list. The two companies had responded to the massive online protests on their Facebook company pages.
However, Economiesuisse has other reasons for removing the list, which until recently still included over 200 companies and associations. The removal had nothing to do with the social media activists, campaign manager Ursula Fräfel told the news agency SDA on Monday. The campaign had been conducted from the outset with a view to the fall session and was limited in time. The National Council has already made two important decisions regarding the CO2 Act: The abolition of the fuel levy and the limitation of the climate cap to 5 centimes. As it has decided in favor of Economiesuisse in both cases, the business umbrella organization therefore considers the campaign with the list of opponents of the CO2 Act to have been successful and thus concluded, said Fräfel.
And since the campaign is over for Economiesuisse, the umbrella organization probably thought it would be wisest to take the list off the net before even more opponents of the CO2 Act are exposed to "Facebook agitation" and, like Mammut, later meekly turn tail.
