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No more asylum chaos, limited immigration, no connection with the EU and maintenance of neutrality – after the election Sunday, the SVP gives itself the voter mandate: “We will continue to use all possible means to fight left-green policies that are harmful to Switzerland and the population is fighting back !”
The Sünneli Party put everything on one card in the election campaign – and won. And how! The party immediately rose by as much as 3.3 percent to a voter share of 28.9 percent. This brings it close to the record result from 2015. At that time, the SVP achieved 29.4 percent, before falling to 25.6 percent in the 2019 eco elections and losing eleven seats.
Since then, however, the eco wave has leveled off again. And the SVP was able to make up for a large part of its losses. It can acquire eight seats in the National Council and now has 61 mandates. The SVP is the undisputed winner of the elections.
During the election campaign, the SVP focused exclusively on the migration issue. “She mobilized better than in 2019,” says political scientist Claude Longchamp. “The SVP has highlighted the asylum issue every day and has now benefited from it.” The strategy has clearly resonated with a population unsettled by ongoing global crises. This was not only evident in Switzerland. Right-wing parties across Europe have made gains in recent months.
“It’s a defeat, you can’t soften it.”
The Greens, on the other hand, are stuck in the valley of tears. After their historic victory in 2019, they have now lost 4 percentage points and still have a voter share of 9.2 percent. “A pitch-black day for the Greens,” Longchamp said. Four years ago there was still a sense of optimism. But that’s over now. This also has concrete consequences in the National Council: The Greens lose 7 of their 28 seats.
And the eco camp must lose even more ground. The Green Liberals have also been hoping for more for some time, as they were counted among the winners in the election polls for a long time, until the tide turned a few months ago. Now they are also among the election losers – although not to the same extent as the Greens. They lost 0.6 percentage points and still ended up with 7.2 percent.
In concrete terms, the GLP has so far lost five of the sixteen seats in the National Council. Together with the Greens, that is twelve seats – about half of the seats that the eco camp won in the 2019 climate elections. This means that climate protection will not have an easier time in parliament over the next four years. And: the two parties can say goodbye to their dreams of sitting in the Federal Council for a longer period of time. Even though Green Party leader Aline Trede (40) doesn’t want to know about it.
Even the socialists cannot compensate for the losses in the left-green camp. And this despite the fact that, according to forecasts, the SP can expect a small increase of 0.7 percentage points to a voter share of 17.5 percent. This means that it has increased its number of seats in the National Council by 2 to 41. A small consolation.
“I am very concerned about the shift to the right,” says SP co-chair Mattea Meyer (35). New recipes are needed to combat climate change and declining purchasing power. Even Balthasar Glättli (51) cannot hide the defeat. “I am very concerned,” says the chairman of the Green Party. “It’s a defeat, you can’t soften it.”
“The magic formula has had its day”
The mutual race between the FDP and the center also caused excitement on Sunday. According to the latest projection, the center gained 0.8 percentage points, while the FDP lost 0.5 percentage points. This means that both parties have a voter share of 14.6 percent. However, the center can win 2 seats and now has 30 seats in the National Council, while the FDP remains stuck at 29 seats.
The FDP’s second Federal Council seat is unlikely to wobble any less. Even though the leaders of the bourgeoisie have so far not wanted to hear about a vote out. You are interested in stability. In contrast to the left-green camp, for which the current magic formula has had its day with the weakening of the FDP. For the time being, however, this is likely to have little impact on the Federal Council elections.
Source:Blick
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