A former illegal alien at the sleeping location
Socialist Alberto Velasco succeeds Céline Zuber-Roy as president of the Grand Council. Portrait of the canton’s first citizen.
At 76, wouldn’t it be appropriate to make way for someone younger? “Presidents are rarely young elected officials,” notes Alberto Velasco. Rather, it is a position in which you must have experience with people, with the political village, with regulations, with customs. You get access to it at the end of your career, which in my case is.”