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The Swiss People’s Party (SVP), which centered its campaign on anti-immigrant rhetoric, is projected to win 29 percent of the vote, up from 25.6 percent four years ago and higher than pre-election polls. It has been the country’s largest party since 2003.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As we've seen repeatedly in the past decade, the Swiss has a major issue with racism on all fronts. It's been pretty extreme.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

This time SVP didn't even hide or deny their connections to known neo nazi groups. They openly posted so on IG. One parliament member even got one of these groups organize her campaign.

But to provide context: Many countries in Europe are shifting to the right at the moment. Not a huge surprise unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And germanny with AFD, Austria with FPÖ, USA with MAGA and Republicans...

Swiss had a shift to the left for a while and now with Ukraine and Israel it's right again.

Btw. are you rage baiting? You could be a twitter bot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

No? You can look at my comment history if you want. I just noticed that the Swiss have had multiple incidents of pretty blatant racism in the past few years, along with extreme xenophobia that wasn't even just immigrant focused.