pondering : no way back
The Swiss are divided into a majority Swiss Germans, a small third Romands, French speaking, and almost ten percent Ticinesi, or Italian speaking Swiss. ( There are also a handful of Rumantsch speakers in the eastern mountains ). We couldn't imagine to be ruled by solely a president from one of the other parts and see the own part excluded or only with minister positions. This wouldn't satisfy a Swiss who now knows collegial rule and its representative advantages.
Indeed with our system all regions are included in the highest public office. The Ticinesi not always and at least the canton Uri has never proposed a federal councilor. Zurich has offered many of them, the economic center being. But all in all it's just, the parliamentarians have since always respected the rule of a regionally representative government. This has a result of there never the frustration to appear of not being represented in government and such there is much less reason to go to the street and strike against injustice and even less so to initiate or join rebellionist movements under the emotional detachment from government. In general.
While in the beginning our executive was a one-party office by the liberals, in the meantime the four biggest parties from right to left are included in the federal council. This is the result of the parliamentary power trading as it crystallizes itself under the rule of the seven wise. With seven chairs to fill, different strategies can emerge. The centrists, the majority makers, see an incentive in brokering for a balanced and inclusive government to find compromises as early as possible in the democratic decision making process.
The Swiss can't imagine anymore to live without their federal council, to be ruled for a four-year term solely by a president from the German part, the Romandie or Ticino. As much as we're a nation of will, united behind our soccer teams, as much as we respect the other for their achievements, as much do we hate eachother for their character traits and so if we had only a Swiss German president, the Romands would maybe rather leave Switzerland than to accept German rule. Unknown whether the same is true on the other side.
A collegial executive is a good way to perenate the cultural differences in a country and not have them nor ignorantly ignored and excluded from a homogenous national social life nor arrogantly ignited with an oppressive and paranoidly determined uniform or monopolar rule, capable to imagine one diversity and only one... when there exist numerous multipolarities on Earth - each with its own truths - to discover throughout your life, so you're free.
And free as i am, i can only recommend the collegial / directorial form of government to modest and patient people stuck in the legal limbo of their national political powerfights despite being otherwise united as a nation on economic, social and spiritual terms. It's not worth nor the glory nor the honor, nor to lead as a president nor to be lead by a president, if it's to end up with a government supposed to be democratic but it's just an "oven" sold to the highest bidding mafia or circle of mafias so unequivocally rich can ignore handily the aspirations of the "plebs" : the modest and patient citizens not believing a lie, such as "the strong president is going to be strong", except its cynic side. Rather believing the truth, such as "the strong president is going to be too weak, at some point, just a question of time".
Opportunity or fatalism, as i stated in the second essay - Power Vacuum -,
maybe the institution of the Swiss Federal Council is just an accident in the history of power trading.
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