Switzerland: right-wing minister ousted

Update:

Böocher's fellow member of the nationalist-conservative Swiss Peoples Party (SVP), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, was elected to the Federal Council. But she immediately asked for time to consider whether to accept the post, with parliament then going into recess and due to reconvene on Thursday.

By Swiss political standards this will be a seismic shock.

Eh oui, mon cher Walter, toutefois "écarté" is nowhere NEAR "ousted" - so there!

Update:

Böocher's fellow member of the nationalist-conservative Swiss Peoples Party (SVP), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, was elected to the Federal Council. But she immediately asked for time to consider whether to accept the post, with parliament then going into recess and due to reconvene on Thursday.



Again, though Tico has a different opinion, I don't know of any country which was run by a government consisting of ministers from the left to the right (the SVP, Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Free Democrats) - since nearly exactly 50 years.

And if the SVP goes in opposition - this would be the severest crisis for Switzerland in decades.

Why.would.it.de.such.a.crisis,Walter


Parties.im.coalitiom.im.mamy.coumtries.chamge.parters.from.ti,e.to.time.


I.dom't.doudt.that.it.IS.a.crisis...I.just.dom't.quite.get.WHY.

Walter Hinteler wrote:

Update:

Böocher's fellow member of the nationalist-conservative Swiss Peoples Party (SVP), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, was elected to the Federal Council. But she immediately asked for time to consider whether to accept the post, with parliament then going into recess and due to reconvene on Thursday.



Again, though Tico has a different opinion, I don't know of any country which was run by a government consisting of ministers from the left to the right (the SVP, Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Free Democrats) - since nearly exactly 50 years.

And if the SVP goes in opposition - this would be the severest crisis for Switzerland in decades.

Why.would.it.de.such.a.crisis,Walter


Parties.im.coalitiom.im.mamy.coumtries.chamge.parters.from.ti,e.to.time.


I.dom't.doudt.that.it.IS.a.crisis...I.just.dom't.quite.get.WHY.

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Now, since Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf's decided to join the government (cheered by hundreds of demonstrators outside the parliament).....

.....the European Union and Switzerland have started a television, radio and poster campaign in African countries to keep potential illegal migrants from trying to immigrate to Europe.

Switzerland's migration authority initiated and directed the campaign, which has included producing a promotional film during the past few months meant to scare away potential illegal immigrants, according to German business daily Handelsblatt.
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Switzerland's right-wing justice minister Christoph Blocher, whose ministry controls the Migration Office, supports the campaign. He, too, told the Swiss paper SonntagsBlick that "we must show the Africans that Switzerland is not paradise."

Blocher's populist Swiss People's Party won the majority of votes in last month's federal elections after a campaign that focused heavily on immigration.

Police in Bern mentioned dozens, not hundreds, most of whom didn't look like actual voters, though no document check was ordered.

dlowan wrote:

Walter Hinteler wrote:

Update:

Böocher's fellow member of the nationalist-conservative Swiss Peoples Party (SVP), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, was elected to the Federal Council. But she immediately asked for time to consider whether to accept the post, with parliament then going into recess and due to reconvene on Thursday.



Again, though Tico has a different opinion, I don't know of any country which was run by a government consisting of ministers from the left to the right (the SVP, Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Free Democrats) - since nearly exactly 50 years.

And if the SVP goes in opposition - this would be the severest crisis for Switzerland in decades.

Why.would.it.de.such.a.crisis,Walter


Parties.im.coalitiom.im.mamy.coumtries.chamge.parters.from.ti,e.to.time.


I.dom't.doudt.that.it.IS.a.crisis...I.just.dom't.quite.get.WHY.

How dare you question the significance of this thread, rabbit!

From 1959 to 2003 the Federal Council was composed of a coalition of all major parties in the same ratio: 2 each from the Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and Christian Democratic People's Party and 1 from the Swiss People's Party. Changes in the council occur, in practice, only if one of the members resigns; this member is almost always replaced by someone from the same party (and often also from the same linguistic group).

This "magic formula" has been widely criticised: in the 1960s, for excluding leftist opposition parties; in the 1980s, for excluding the emerging Green party; and particularly after the 1999 election, by the People's Party, which had by then grown from being the fourth largest party on the National Council to being the largest. In the elections of 2003, the People's Party received (effective January 1, 2004) a second seat in the Federal Council, reducing the share of the Christian Democratic Party to one seat.

Congrats to the working keyboard

Adding to my above response (from wikipedia):

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From 1959 to 2003 the Federal Council was composed of a coalition of all major parties in the same ratio: 2 each from the Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and Christian Democratic People's Party and 1 from the Swiss People's Party. Changes in the council occur, in practice, only if one of the members resigns; this member is almost always replaced by someone from the same party (and often also from the same linguistic group).

This "magic formula" has been widely criticised: in the 1960s, for excluding leftist opposition parties; in the 1980s, for excluding the emerging Green party; and particularly after the 1999 election, by the People's Party, which had by then grown from being the fourth largest party on the National Council to being the largest. In the elections of 2003, the People's Party received (effective January 1, 2004) a second seat in the Federal Council, reducing the share of the Christian Democratic Party to one seat.

I spit upon your filthy Swiss keyboard . . . Ptui ! ! !

High Seas wrote:

Police in Bern mentioned dozens, not hundreds, most of whom didn't look like actual voters, though no document check was ordered.

Well, the tv videos gave quite a different picture - I saw it live (Swiss tv SRG on 3sat)

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Now, since Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf's decided to join the government (cheered by hundreds of demonstrators outside the parliament).....

I spit upon your filthy Swiss keyboard . . . Ptui ! ! !

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