In Geneva, Simon Brandt, a former PLR deputy in the Geneva Supreme Council and a municipal councilor for the city of Geneva, announced his return to politics in an interview with Blake on Monday. He will run in the municipal elections next spring under the banner of the Social Liberties and Justice Party, the party of State Councilor Pierre Modit.
Simon Brandt suspended his political career in 2020, after he was the subject of an investigation by the Geneva courts on suspicion of breaches of official confidentiality within the framework of his tenure as a municipal councilor and his work in the Police Strategic Analysis Department.
Simon Brandt has since been acquitted. The former PLR member was psychologically traumatized by his arrest and interrogation at the police station. He considered himself being treated like a criminal. He was handcuffed, stripped of his clothes, and searched. After this incident, he disappeared from the political scene.
I approached from several sides
In Blake's columns, Simon Brandt explains his return to work. “I took the time to rebuild myself after the ordeals I went through over the past five years,” he says. “Several parties contacted me, but my commitment to defending freedoms and a sense of justice would only push me to join the Bar Association.”
Simon Brandt therefore joined the party founded by Pierre Maudet, someone he was very close to and who at the time was suffering from legal problems stemming from a trip to Abu Dhabi in 2015. He considers himself a former municipal councillor, even today. A “collateral victim” of this case that caused a sensation.
Simon Brandt admits that, before joining LJS, he had to “settle some personal points” with Pierre Maudet. Today the page has been turned and he believes that the new political formation founded by his former mentor is the “New Radical Party,” the social and popular wing “which the current People’s Liberation Party no longer represents at all.”
This article was published automatically. Source: ATS
