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Merz – president or laughing stock?

Political cartoonists lampoon Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz.

Without the backing of the other members of the Swiss cabinet, Merz apologised to Libya for the detention in Geneva last year of Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife. The apology unleashed condemnation of the move across Switzerland.

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