Ueli Maurer wants to enter the communications industry

Ueli Maurer, president of the Swiss People's Party (SVP), is considering a move from managing director of the Farmers' Union to the communications industry.He will also relinquish the party presidency, which he has held since January 1996, next year. According to an SDA report, Maurer has resigned from his position at the Farmers' Union as of mid-2008 and will probably start his own business, but there are "still two or three other options.