"Brisant": Politician fights for Rega construction, husband gets contract

In the Rega project in Kägiswil OW, research by "20 Minuten" reveals a very close connection between an architect, a politician and the air rescue organization.

Specifically, it's about Trudi and Arthur Abächerli. She is an Obwalden cantonal councillor (FDP) and is at the forefront of the political fight for Rega's relocation to Kägiswil. He is an architect - and, as Rega has now confirmed, he is "representing the client together with two Zurich architects". It also became known that the cantonal councillor had previously worked for Rega boss Ernst Kohler. The connection of interests "blew up" by chance, as the President of the Obwalden Airfield Cooperative, Thomas Geissdörfer, told "20 Minuten": he was passing by the airfield by chance and saw a group of people on the meadow next to the runway. "I approached them and asked what they were doing here." One man then introduced himself as "the architect of Rega". "At first he didn't want to give his name. When asked, he then introduced himself as Arthur Abächerli."

You can read the whole story here on "20 Minuten".

On Tuesday, May 5, the AeCS, together with the Swiss Airfield Association and the Obwalden Airfield Cooperative FGOW, submitted a petition to the Federal Council to preserve the Kägiswil airfield. Of the almost 11,000 signatures, a third came from Central Switzerland.