Swiss politics transformed in the ballot box

The Swiss People's Party (SVP, conservative populist party) with Christoph Blocher, has won the Swiss general elections held on Sunday, October 21st. Jean-Jacques Roth considers in his editorial that "Something has definitely changed in Swiss politics. .... The SVP is increasing its advantage in votes as well as parliamentary seats. ... The SVP can thus celebrate a complete victory, which the weakening of its centre-right competitors and its left-wing adversaries renders all the more insulting. Never before has a party so distinctly seized leadership of the country. ... It is on questions linked to identity, to behaviour and values that the elections rested, rather than on the left-right axis. These new divides have not finished remodelling the political landscape, where everything is now moving a lot more and faster. Switzerland certainly doesn't seem itself anymore."

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