GENEVA: Swiss President Alain Berset announced Wednesday that he will quit the government at the end of 2023, in a surprise move after 12 years in government roles.
Berset, 51, who is serving in the country’s annually-rotating presidency for a second time, told a press conference in the capital Bern that he had told his colleagues on the seven-member Federal Council government that he was planning to quit the council “at the end of the year”.
Berset, 51, who is serving in the country’s annually-rotating presidency for a second time, told a press conference in the capital Bern that he had told his colleagues on the seven-member Federal Council government that he was planning to quit the council “at the end of the year”.