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Switzerland

With the green wave, a new conservatism?

written by Jonas Follonier

Liberalism and conservatism, two niches of the classical European right, are not the big losers of the federal elections. If you think about it, the ecological preoccupation now officially present among the population denotes a new form of conservatism and way of conceiving freedom, beyond the social and progressive dimension that characterizes this movement. A mutation of the great ideologies that brings great strengths, but also great risks. Analysis.

Switzerland

Mathieu Fabian Gauss, an ex-Green who became PBD

By Nicolas Locatelli · October 19, 2019

He is one of the few federal election candidates to have switched parties. How does one move from the ecologist Green Party to the bourgeois-democratic Party? Discussion.

World

After the SVP, chaos

By Clément Guntern · 03 October 2019

Let's try a little imagination. It's Sunday, October 20, 2019. Since midday, the results for the first cantons have been trickling in, with some regions clearly going faster than others. Suddenly, to everyone's surprise and contrary to what the media and experts had been claiming for several months, it's not the ecologist parties that are posting surprising scores; it's the Union démocratique du center! As the day progresses, the map of Switzerland changes to an almost uniform green, but not a light green. This one is much darker. At around 7.30pm, when Swiss Radio's star presenter takes to the airwaves, the news is crystal clear: for the first time since 1919 and the end of radical rule in Switzerland, one party has won an absolute majority in both the National Council and the Council of States, and that party is the SVP.