2023-05-03 08:25:28
“Fascht üsser Atu heintsch alli glosut”: Center parliamentary group leader Matthias Bregy declaimed a poem, the council listened spellbound.
Video: Tamedia
It took a little longer, Lukas Reimann has been a member of the National Council for 15 years, but now he has finally found the courage to say what has been bothering him for all this time: he has to speak Standard German in Parliament.
And so the St. Gallen SVP National Council does what parliamentarians tend to do when dealing with the really big problems in this country: Reimann writes a proposal (“är write it to Moziönli”, as they say in the Federal Palace). With this same motion, Reimann demands that in future one may also speak dialect in parliament. His idea was debated in the National Council on Tuesday evening.
That not dialect has been one of the four official languages of Switzerland for 175 years, but standard German? No argument for Reimann. “I think if someone wants to speak to the people in a close-up manner, then they speak in dialect.”
Reimann’s 15 years of parliamentary work have left their school French relatively unscathed.
That dialect is almost incomprehensible for French and Ticino people? No argument for Lukas Reimann. He brings Christiane Brunner from Geneva as key witness. She said 30 years ago that dialect was simpler than High German (he forgot to mention that Brunner grew up with French and Swiss German).
Reimann’s arguments don’t really seem to convince the non-German speakers in the council.
Ada Marra (SP) from Vaud will be the first to take the lectern. She asks (in non-dialect French) whether Reimann might not want to learn French first before he sentences French and Ticino people to learn Swiss German? Reimann tries to parry the question in French, but above all proves that 15 years of parliamentary work have left their school French relatively unscathed. As a parliamentarian, he should understand French, admits Reimann, but he doesn’t want to speak it. “Parce que ce n’est pas joli.”
“Laughter”: SP National Councilor Jacqueline Badran and her group during Bregy’s lecture.
Photo: Keystone
At this point, the minutes of the council record “cheerfulness” for the first time. Reimann’s opponents smell blood.
Céline Weber (GLP) from Vaud wants to know which dialect he thinks the French should learn. Maybe “Bärdütsch”? Or rather «Oberwalliserditsch»? Jean-Luc Addor, Reimann’s French-speaking party colleague, asks how exactly Reimann imagines the minutes of dialect debates.
“If you want to speak a beautiful language, you can also learn Romansh.”
The Ticino Fabio Regazzi (centre) intervenes in Italian: “Before you force us to understand Swiss German, shouldn’t you at least learn the Ticino dialect and Italian?” Reimann does not understand the question, but at least assures that Ticino and Romands are also important. “You belong.” Oof!
National Council President Martin Candinas gives Reimann advice: “If you want to speak a beautiful language, you can also learn Romansh.” Increased cheerfulness.
In the meantime, Reimann has fallen into such a reserve when it comes to arguments that two party colleagues rush to his aid. Thomas Matter complains that Romands and Ticinesi are allowed to speak their mother tongue in the council, only the poor “Suisse totos” have to constantly pretend. That is exactly “the tragedy,” says SVP parliamentary group leader Thomas Aeschi. (A little information on the side: Lombardic dialects are also spoken in Ticino and Patois in Welschland.)
As a parliamentarian, he should understand French, admits SVP national councilor Lukas Reimann, but he doesn’t want to speak it. “Parce que ce n’est pas joli.”
Photo: Peter Klaunzer (Keystone)
Matters and Aeschi’s support doesn’t help Reimann anymore, because now Philipp Matthias Bregy, the parliamentary group leader of Die Mitte, steps up to the lectern. He will prove why Reimann’s suggestion cannot be implemented, says the man from Upper Valais – and without transition begins to recite a dialect poem by the poet Moritz Gertschen from Naters, who died in 1975:
«Fascht üsser Atu heintsch alli glosut,
was Rev. Tunisian Ettro da Verzellt;
und ds Tschifru-Muri het nim’ gitosut,
and ds Kathri unner ds Chritz schi gposed.
And d’Müehma Sänza drives hard a churru,
sälbscht d’Luwisa äschubleichi chunt;
wils Zit vam Chilchuturru
It’s twelve o’clock, you geischer hour!”
The “Amtliche Bulletin” no longer registers “cheerfulness” here, because that would be a lie: the National Council chamber is raging.
The Council proceeds to vote. 164 votes for Philipp Matthias Bregy and his dead poet, 20 votes for Lukas Reimann. Reimann will therefore also have to speak Standard German in the future. So poor Schnäggo!
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– “Ds Tschifru-Muri” in the Federal Palace – a stupid move reaped laughter
A German-Swiss SVP national council thinks that Ticino and Romands should understand dialect. A Valais counters with a poem – Parliament is raging.