Maria Wegelin has resigned as president of the Winterthur branch of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party.
Wegelin resigned from office after it became known that she had worked with two activists of the extreme right-wing “Junge Tat” in her failed House of Representatives election campaign.
On Tuesday she resigned as president at an extraordinary general meeting of the party. She is also giving up her office as a city parliamentarian, according to a statement.
The new interim president Marco Graf will lead the Swiss People’s Party Winterthur until the party’s annual general assembly in 2024, according to the statement.
At the end of September the SonntagsBlick made public that Wegelin had engaged two Junge Tat activists, who had criminal convictions, for her ultimately unsuccessful election campaign in social media. The Winterthur Homeowners’ Association then withdrew its support and called on Wegelin to distance herself from the Junge Tat. ...