Swiss activists demand asylum in Sweden
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 07:11:15 PM
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Around 25 activists from the "Black Sheep" group invaded the garden of the Swedish ambassador in Berne Friday, demanding political asylum in the wake of Sunday's victory by the right-wing populist Swiss People's Party (SVP), the Swiss news agency ATS reported. The group's name refers to a controversial campaign poster used by the SVP during the election depicting three white sheep on a Swiss flag booting out a black sheep. The SVP – which campaigns against illegal immigration, asylum abuses and demands the repatriation of foreign criminals – came out of Sunday's Swiss elections the comfortable winner, with 29% of...
"Far-right" Swiss party divides nation on immigrant issue - Media compares "Far-Right" to Nazis
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 07:11:15 PM
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| SCHWERZENBACH, Switzerland: The posters taped on the walls at a political rally here capture the rawness of Switzerland's national electoral campaign: Three white sheep stand on the Swiss flag, as one of them kicks a single black sheep away. "For Greater Security," the poster reads. The poster is not the creation of a fringe movement, but of the most powerful party in Switzerland's federal Parliament and a member of the coalition government, an extreme-right party called the Swiss People's Party, or SVP. It has been distributed in a mass mailing to Swiss households, reproduced in newspapers and magazines and hung... |
Mosque minarets a threat: Swiss MPs (spade=spade!)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 07:11:15 PM
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| GENEVA: Right-wing politicians from Switzerland’s largest political party on Thursday launched a campaign for a referendum to ban the construction of minarets on mosques, claiming they symbolised an Islamist bid for power. The group, including more than half of the Swiss People’s Party’s (SVP) parliamentarians, said in a statement that a ban would help stop “attempts by Islamist circles to impose a legal system based on the sharia in Switzerland”. Some of the politicians said they did not oppose mosques or Muslims’ right to worship. The Swiss constitution guarantees religious freedoms and the legality of the initiative was questioned by... |
Rightwing Party Wins Swiss Poll
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 07:11:15 PM
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| Rightwing party wins Swiss poll Alison Langley in Zurich Monday October 20, 2003 The Guardian (UM) The rightwing Swiss People's party scored big gains in national elections yesterday, capturing 28% of the vote on an anti-immigrant platform and throwing into disarray the coalition government that has ruled Switzerland since 1959. It edged out the left-leaning Social Democrats to become the biggest party in the lower house of parliament, a Swiss television projection showed. The Social Democrats took 24% of the vote, up 1.7 points, while the Greens won four more seats. Both centrist parties came under pressure, with the liberal... |
Swiss right in political avalanche
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 07:11:15 PM
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| Swiss right in political avalanche SVP leader Christoph Blocher wants a cabinet seat The far-right Swiss People's Party (SVP) has won the biggest share of the vote in parliamentary elections, throwing a decades-old system of consensus government into turmoil. The party won 11 extra seats in the lower house of parliament, taking its total in the 200-member parliament to 55. Exit polls put its support at 27%. The party, once the smallest of four governing parties in the Swiss coalition, is now the largest. SWISS PEOPLE'S PARTY Opposed to European Union membership Anti-immigration Accused of racism after saying drugs controlled... |
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