Young Liberals criticise Young Alternatives over call for ban on air show

As reported last week, the Young Alternative Party insisted there would be no room for an air show at the National Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival (ESAF), which is to take place in Zug in 2019, bearing in mind the incident ten days ago at the World Skiing Championships in St Moritz, where a plane taking part in an aerial display sliced through a cable, sending the TV camera it was carrying crashing to the ground. Fortunately, no one was injured.
 
As to the details of what side-shows will take place at the ESAF, these have not yet been decided. No such air-show is being planned, though Heinz Tännler, the chairman of the organisation committee, has not ruled one out, as long as it took place over the lake for example, where the public would not be at risk.
 
Now the Young Liberal Party of Zug has accused the Young Alternative Party of trying to score points out of the latter’s proposed ban on any air show. It was as if the Young Alternative Party were the only party which put public safety above everything else. Gian Brun, the chairman of the Young Liberals, said he did not wish to deny the incident in St Moritz was serious, but it was being investigated and, surely, lessons would be learned from it.
 
As mentioned, until the Young Alternatives came out against an air show at ESAF, none such had been planned anyway, but now that Tännler has come out and said that he was not categorically against one, the Young Liberals think a spectacular aerial show would be fitting culmination to the ESAF, the biggest sporting event in the country, which takes place only every three years.
 
For his part, Tännler emphasised an aerial display was not a priority issue.