Director of the Sotomo Institute, Michael Hermann is Switzerland's most influential political analyst. In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses his 2023 «city-country barometer», analyzing the tensions that are running through the country.
Ask anyone if they're right or left-wing, and they'll probably know the answer. Not sure, however, whether they can fully justify their answer. But is the question itself relevant?
The run-up to the federal elections did not offer much in the way of substantive debate. Ecology was omnipresent, overshadowing issues such as Europe, old-age provision and health insurance. In contrast to the upstream campaign, the results are very interesting: the left does not represent the workers it wants to defend, and the divide between town and country has been consummated.
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LONG FORM INTERVIEW, Nicolas Jutzet | Are the political terms «left» and «right» relevant? Do they really mean anything? Shouldn't they be used more sparingly, as our editor-in-chief advocated in his editorial of October 2015? Historian Oliver Meuwly believes that these two categories have been inseparable from political thought since the French Revolution, and that they enable us to pinpoint the trends that characterize our political landscape. In his book «La droite et la gauche» (2016), the liberal-radical from Vaud recalls the history of these two terms while analyzing their deep and current meaning.
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