There are careers that shine a light on a country.
And others which reveal a drift.
Alain Berset has not left the Swiss political scene by chance: he has been recycled. Recycled into a supranational institution that claims to defend democracy while neutralising peoples, freedoms while monitoring opinions, the law while bypassing sovereignty. His accession to the summit of the Council of Europe is not a consecration - it is a symptom.
It was a daring move.
Leaving the Federal Council by the back door, after one of the most authoritarian episodes in Switzerland's recent history, to be recycled at the top of a supranational institution... claiming to embody democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
Alain Berset did it.
The former Federal Councillor, now Secretary General of the Council of Europe, now presents himself as the enlightened guardian of European values. A role tailor-made for the man who, during Covid, trivialised coercion, state disinformation and the stigmatisation of opponents - without ever being held to account.
Is the Council of Europe “profoundly Swiss”? Is that so?
Alain Berset says it without batting an eyelid:
«The Council of Europe is profoundly Swiss.»
This is a major political untruth.
The Council of Europe is :
- the ECHR which imposes decisions on Switzerland that run counter to the will of the people,
- a foreign case law which arrogates to itself the right to correct our direct democracy,
- a supranational logic in which the people become a problem to be managed.
To present this as a natural extension of the Swiss model is either naive or manipulative.
“Coolitude, censorship and democratic contempt
In the face of American criticism of freedom-destroying excesses in Europe, Berset calls for... coolitude :
«We need to listen to criticism from Washington without confirming Donald Trump's assessments.»
Translation: listen, but above all don't change anything.
For while it preaches serenity, the Council of Europe :
- legitimate combating “disinformation”, a vague concept that has become a political weapon,
- supports democratic pacts used to monitor opinions, platforms and debates,
- is part of a dynamic in which the state claims to decide what is true and what is false.
Absolute irony: the man who publicly stated that the Covid certificate proving the absence of contagiousness - a false claim - is now the arbiter of democratic truth.
Ukraine, armaments and double talk
Berset aligns himself without nuance with the dominant discourse:
«The greatest danger to Europe comes from Russia. It is legitimate for Europe to rearm strongly.»
But in the same breath, he calls for dialogue, peace and responsibility.
Always this disembodied moral rhetoric, never submitted to the vote of the people, never confronted with the concrete consequences.
Switzerland, a neutral state, has no vocation to align itself with this logic of blocs. However, it is gradually being dragged along by the likes of Berset - without a popular mandate.
The perfect recycling of a man of the system
The route is clear:
- vertical management of Covid,
- no self-criticism,
- honorary awards,
- then golden exile in a supranational institution.
While confidence in the media and institutions is plummeting, At a time when almost one Swiss in two is turning away from traditional information, Berset explains that the danger comes from... ill-informed citizens.
Never disconnected elites.
Conclusion
Alain Berset has not been “promoted”.
It was recycled.
Recycled in a bureaucratic Europe that confuses democracy with conformity, human rights with moral governance, public debate with control of opinion.
This illustrates a worrying trend:
when a politician can trample on the sovereignty of the people and then pose as the guarantor of freedoms elsewhere.
Switzerland deserves better than exiled preachers.
It deserves leaders accountable to the people, not endorsed by the structures he never chose.
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