The results of this autumn's federal elections may be cause for celebration or sadness, depending on one's sensibilities. However, we can objectively worry about the longer-term evolution of Swiss politics. Although everything may seem to be playing to the same tune, Switzerland is changing and dividing.
If Swiss political history since the end of the Second World War had to be summed up in a single word, it would be «consensus». This is a Swiss tradition, a national state of mind and a political practice that is the envy of the world. At least, that's the recipe our politicians brandish to explain the country's success. You only have to listen to the television interviews and read the interviews in the press to understand the centrality of this notion: one is the candidate of consensus, the other gives as an electoral argument that he knows how to work with everyone. Comm
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