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GENEVA: Swiss President Alain Berset announced Wednesday that he will quit the government at the end of 2023, in a surprise move after 12 years in government roles.
Berset, 51, who is serving in the country's annually-rotating presidency for a second time, told a press conference in the capital Bern that he had told his colleagues on the seven-member Federal Council government that he was planning to quit the council "at the end of the year".
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