While disparities in representation between men and women remain persistent at the highest decision-making levels, the arrival of some women in power reveals dissensions over the very nature of the «women's cause».
The victory of the country's leading party over the Greens on Sunday went according to plan. But it's not enough for some commentators to acknowledge that immigration and wokism are causing criticism among the population.
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.
The fight against wokism will be part of the program of the Swiss People's Party (SVP) for the 2023-2027 legislative period. Despite the criticism, this could well be a very clever move for the conservative party in the run-up to the federal elections.
This Wednesday, October 12, we took part in a debate on the Federal Council's «magic formula» on the...
A seemingly simple but explosive story. Cantonal delegates of the Young Swiss People's Party (Jeunes UDC suisses) were allegedly turned away from a bar because of their political color, «Le Regard Libre» has learned. The group's president and vice-president react.
The SVP has seized on a real phenomenon
LONG FORM INTERVIEW, Jonas Follonier | He's one of Switzerland's leading politicians 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 the 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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