Pascal Couchepin will have lots of time to think about the future.
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The Swiss interior minister will step down on 31 October, 2009. The move was no surprise. Pascal Couchepin had been under fire for his ideas to reform the Swiss health system, which has seen spiralling costs. A former mayor of Martigny, the 67-year-old Couchepin was elected to cabinet in 1998.
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