Socialist National Councillor Benoît Gaillard highlights the decline in political participation, the growing complexity of parliamentary work and the need to accept conflicts rather than stifle them in the name of an illusory consensus.
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Pragmatism in politics, well regarded in Switzerland, obviously has its good points. But it also has its risks. And these are devious. Editorial by Jonas Follonier
The history of Swiss political parties is rich and complex. However, it reveals a certain continuity through which they learn to renew themselves as direct democracy, and the evolution of society it often reflects, impose new themes on their agendas.
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Le Regard Libre N° 76 - Antoine Bernhard
Fifty years after the arrival of women's suffrage in Switzerland, the Socialists want to extend it across the board to foreigners resident in the country. In January, the party tabled a parliamentary intervention and launched an online petition to promote the «right to vote for all». With this demagogic operation, the SP is revealing its revolutionary nature and demonstrating that it is often the enemy of the people. Commentary.
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Le Regard Libre N° 68 - Jonas Follonier
Mohamed Hamdaoui is one of the Swiss politicians most involved in the fight against Islamism. Even if he doesn't like the word «combat» (he prefers the word «cause»), Mohamed Hamdaoui has made it one of his priority themes, making himself a highly committed player in this debate, even if it means over-emotionalizing. His background no doubt has something to do with it: born in the Hoggar, this Tuareg loved a woman who, in the 1980s, was kidnapped by Algerian Islamists because she refused to wear the veil. These sowers of terror beheaded her. The murder in France of Professor Samuel Paty by a radicalized Muslim using the same modus operandi shook him to the core. Interview with a former socialist turned PDC, who doesn't consider Switzerland immune to political Islam.
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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.
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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.
The weakness of opponents in the face of sophists
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