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What the new National Council reveals
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.
With the green wave, a new conservatism?
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.
Mathieu Fabian Gauss, an ex-Green who became PBD
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.
The SVP censored again?
At the very end of last week, the YouTube company deleted a video by the Zurich SVP denouncing immigration to Switzerland and its consequences for security and welfare. On learning of the company's decision, the party immediately denounced it as censorship.
Has Eric Zemmour crossed the red line?
Lors de la «Convention de la droite» le samedi 28 septembre dernier, le polémiste français Eric Zemmour a tenu un discours que plus d'un a jugé raciste et islamophobe. A-t-il franchi la ligne rouge? Analyse point par point, sans morale à la petite semaine.
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