Dominique Baettig

Dominique Baettig ( born September 22, 1953 in Delsberg, hometown entitled in Rickenbach ) is a Swiss politician ( SVP).

Life

From professional Baettig is a psychiatrist. He is married and has four children.

Policy

In the elections of October 21, 2007 Baettig was elected as the first representative of the SVP of the canton of Jura in the National Council. As the SVP Bern was always averse to the spin-off of the Jura from the canton of Bern, Canton of Jura had been a negative attitude towards their policy. Bättig's election was a sign that this attitude is slowly weakening. In addition Baettig could greatly benefit from a list connection between the SVP and the former Free Democratic Party. In the elections of 23 October 2011, he was not re-elected.

Compared to the average party he is open to ecological issues.

In a foray Baettig demanded that Switzerland create conditions to facilitate cross-border regions such as Baden- Württemberg, the department of Jura and Alsace in France, Bolzano, Aosta and Como in Italy and Vorarlberg in Austria connection to Switzerland.

Parliamentary work

In Parliament Baettig belonged to the Social Security Commission and healthy, and he spoke mainly on health topics. The reason for the higher health care costs, he sees a " Comprehensive mentality ", and an increasing bureaucratization, accompanied by a weakening of family doctors. Managed care models he refuses.

Baettig describes himself as an opponent of globalization and sees a threat to national and regional peculiarities, the movement of persons between Switzerland and the EU, he wants to terminate .. He sees himself as a representative of Common Sense to the political correctness in the migration. Baettig criticized an alleged increase in hedonism and indifference and a decrease of conservative values ​​such as ownership or appreciation of work. Legalization of cannabis would reinforce his opinion, such a development. Again and again spoke Baettig the National Council against motions for introduction of paternity leave behind such projects a " feminization of the male role image " and he suspects many men would therefore only a Vaterschaftsurlab want because they were pushed by their wives to do so.

Right-wing extremism and racism allegations

Prior to the vote of the continuation of the movement of persons and their extension to Romania and Bulgaria used Baettig antiziganist clichés. In December 2009 Baettig asked the Federal Council in a parliamentary motion by the " follow-up costs of Eindringes alien species ," said Baettig foreigners with insects and plants compared. Manifestations of Baettig 'to popular initiative against the construction of minarets " in October 2009 at the Congress of the right-wing extremist movement Les IDENTITAIRES in southern France were classified by the Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism as a verbal racism. Baettig was active in his student days at right groups, of which he had become partially detached. As before, however, can be classified as revisionist some of his views, which suggests an ideological proximity to the far right.