Monday, October 23, 2023

Swiss Right-Wing Populists Strengthen Hold After Federal Elections

 

Politico: Swiss election results: Far right dominates after anti-immigration campaign 

Final results show sizeble gains for the far-right Swiss People’s Party, and important losses for the Greens. 

The far-right and euroskeptic Swiss People’s Party (SVP) came out as a clear leader in Switzerland’s national elections, according to final results released late Sunday. 

The SVP, which has centered its campaign on anti-immigrant rhetoric in an election dominated by domestic issues, has won 28.6 percent of the vote in the Parliament’s lower chamber, the National Council — up from 25.6 percent four years ago — winning 62 seats, nine more than in 2019. 

While the centrist The Center party maintained its score at 14.6 percent (29 seats), the liberal FDP party suffered a small loss, losing one seat.  

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Swiss Right-Wing Populists Strengthen Hold After Federal Elections  

A Swiss populist party rebounds and the Greens sink in the election. That's a big change from 2019 -- AP  

Populist right dominates Swiss elections -- France 24  

Populist right grows as counting underway for Swiss election -- DW  

Switzerland: Right-wing populists strengthen hold after federal elections -- Euronews  

Switzerland’s populists promise ‘less political correctness’ after election win -- The Guardian

7 comments:

  1. Whenever a "right" candidate wins (i.e. when no one cheated at the polls), the media is up in arms "FAR RIGHT WING"..yeah yeah, as opposed to what?

    The "normal" lefties who want to fck our kids, castrate them and force us to accept their demented ways, in addition to opening our borders and fucking our economy?

    I take FAR FAR FARRRR right wing from those leftist fanatics any day of the week

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  2. Deys Wight-Wing ain't dey WNU


    Where Did the Terms ‘Left Wing’ and ‘Right Wing’ Come From?

    "It has to do with seating arrangements."

    Left Wing and right wing are such empty catch all labels.

    When the words extreme, wing, far or right are used it is to win the arguments before the arguments are present by labeling, bringing emotion into it and eliciting a knee jerk reaction.

    3 or 4 years ago WNU was complaining about google and others censoring and rightly so. He noted that the MSM mostly lied by omission. Now he is using freighted words with careless abandon. I have to think this is purposeful.

    Party Platforms change over time. To describe party, you have to describe their policy recommendations and implementations of the last 4 to 20 years. I have seen political Parties be pro, anti, and pro immigration in the space of a few decades.

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  3. "Our colleagues spent their last seconds alive helping - sorting parcels with medicine and humanitarian aid for the civilian suffering from the war. The Russians destroyed a civilian building and should be convicted of war crimes. Please, spread the word "

    Humanitarian aid got bombed ay Kharkiv Post office.



    "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

    But Russia bombing the shit out of a post office is another matter.


    https://twitter.com/NP_official_ua/status/1716370413851201775

    VVV If you are Russian and like watching innocent people getting blown up, this is a must see video VVV

    https://twitter.com/NP_official_ua/status/1716072586939973845

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  4. Just to be clear, Far Right = anything to the right of Far Left. Got it?

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  5. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has given his military a tall order, demanding that they take at least 500 meters of territory every day after suffering tens of thousands of casualties in their floundering counteroffensive against Russian forces.


    500 meters per day?
    You will retake the dinbsss and Crimea in about 5 years, if you are luck.

    Too bad there will be no young Ukrainians left to see it. They will all be dead.

    Stupid.

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