The canton of Zurich should campaign for air shows at the “Züri Fäscht”.
The fact that the left-wing majority in the Zurich City Council wants to push through a ban on air shows and fireworks at the “Züri Fäscht” doesn’t please the bourgeois cantonal councilors at all. They want the canton to get involved.
Without the two main attractions, the air show and fireworks, the “Züri Fäscht” would be in jeopardy, fear representatives of SVP and FDP.
Since the major event in the Zurich economic area generated direct added value of around 370 million francs and the canton also contributed to the implementation with cash and non-cash benefits, the government council must act accordingly and demand that the SVP and FDP in an urgent postulate and an urgent The Interpellation were published on Thursday.
Ban not decided yet
The municipal council of the city of Zurich has not yet imposed the bans. He postponed the controversial decision at his Wednesday evening meeting until after the summer holidays. Questions had arisen as to the form in which the waiver of the air shows and fireworks could be legally decided.
But this delay does not change anything in terms of the goal – they would stick to their demands, made clear on Wednesday the municipal councilor Balz Bürgisser (Greens).
The SP, Greens and AL, which brought the bans to the table, together have 63 seats in the 125-strong Zurich City Council – and thus have a small majority.
Another location for the “Züri Fäscht”?
The SVP and FDP criticize that their actions endanger “the tightest possible majority of a municipal legislature” for the popular festival for the entire canton population. “The canton cannot be indifferent to this.”
In order for the future of the “Züri Fäscht” to be secured and for the providers hit by the corona pandemic to require planning security, the Government Council should campaign for the highlights of air shows and fireworks, according to the two proposals.
In it, the parliamentarians also point out that the canton’s say, despite co-financing, is marginal compared to the influence of the city of Zurich. “What possibilities does the government council see to correct this disparity if this happy festival is gradually becoming politicized?”
The “Züri Fäscht” does not necessarily have to take place in the city of Zurich, as SVP and FDP suggest. You ask the government council whether it sees alternative or decentralized locations for the major event if the city is no longer willing to hold it in a practicable and economically viable framework.
The next “Züri Fäscht” is scheduled to take place from July 7th to 9th, 2023. (sda)
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