Swiss finance minister Maurer to step down at end of year (updated)

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       ZURICH, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Swiss Finance Minister Ueli
Maurer will step down at the end of this year, he told a news
conference on Friday.
    Maurer, a fiscal hawk and member of the right-wing Swiss
People's Party, has been finance minister since 2016. He had
also served as defence minister and held the revolving Swiss
presidency in 2013.
    His successor is set to be decided on Dec. 7, when
assignments in the cabinet will be determined, he said. 
    Maurer, 71, said no single event had led to his decision to
step down, but he noted that after four decades in politics, it
was time for a change.
        "In the past one-and-a-half years, I felt I have a lot
of energy to do something else," he said.
  
 (Reporting by Michael Shields, Editing by Miranda Murray)
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