Right-wing Swiss party exceeds 30% for first time, says poll
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/right-wing-swiss-party-exceeds-30-for-first-time-says-poll/90105112
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Right-wing Swiss party exceeds 30% for first time, says poll
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/right-wing-swiss-party-exceeds-30-for-first-time-says-poll/90105112
Posted by Sufficient-History71
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Apparently increasing income inequality and effed up environment is not an issue for 30% of the Swiss at all – sheep voting for the wolves.
Well yeah when one of the parties regularly creates millions of damage in public and private property people aren’t gonna be happy. Who would’ve thought smh
How can anyone support any right wing government when they see whats happening in america lmfao
Right-wing? Rather semifascist extreme-right wing bunch of xenophobes
These people have fundamentaly different values and fears. Regardless if it’s based in reality, the fear of ending in a “foreigner led country” or “communist dictatorship” are so strong that risking to fall into a authoritarian nationalistic ethnostate is worth it in their eyes.
plz stop importing that USA bullshit here
we dont need anymore left or right extremists
switzerland is better then this
people slightly left in switzerland would be counted as right-wing in murica
One day the swiss rednecks will find out that theyre not their friends either.
Yikes.
Let’s keep insulting the voters instead of analyzing what your party is doing wrong.
it‘s literally only immigration talk. it‘s pondering to fears. it has always worked and will always work.
the only single thing left wing parties have to do is at least *accept* that immigration can be an issue. not as a whole, but it can be. do that and the SVP is irrelevant. Denmarks leftists have shown how it works without somehow being a traitor to leftist ideals.
People who support left parties should use their brain (and heart) and try to understand why 30% of the country votes for SVP. Thinking that they are all stupid is an explanation that is not going to help anyone.
Yes, we have almost destroyed the environment and inequality is increasing. Then why do people vote for SVP, which doesn’t solve these problems? Use your brains, people. It is not that everyone is stupid.
To me sounds like the question should be “why do other parties fail to gather people”
Sure udc/svp is a populist party but they still talk about stuff that apparently worries 30% of voters. And they do it horribly bad which tells even more about how disconnected other parties might be
*if you don’t actively follow politics daily with passion but just browse social media and read/watch the news in surface like most people
It’s sad to see how people still fall for populist bullshit
America doesnt equal switzerland. And voting right doesnt equal voting for nazis atleast not here in switzerland.
The right has some good point just like the left, its up to the person to decide whats most impotant to them. Its extremism thats the issue. Doesnt matter if its right or left, both are bad.
As a south african, italian, dutch and german (litrely) my biggest issues are living-costs, increase in crime and offshoring.
I’m one of them. And I’m not the establishment.
I can understand their racism, but I can’t understand their pro Putin stance: it makes no sense, as does their climate change denial.
“Everyone that doesn’t vote or think like me is stupid!!!” average leftist
First of all, I don’t vote SVP, I try to understand the people who do.
So please don’t crucify me for the following statements:
Most of the statements I have heard from people who vote SVP is that they are fed up with the whole gender issue and want “real” problems dealt with.
Most of them feel the financial pressure and are looking for simple answers to complex questions:
“The evil foreigner took my job”.
It’s easier to understand than hey our whole economic system is end-stage capitalism due to system changes like AI, climate change and greater pressure from tech billionaires.
“Switzerland is no longer Switzerland”
Is a point that I can understand to a certain extent. Switzerland has changed from a very monogamous population to a multicultural state in a short space of time.
The Switzerland I knew from my childhood no longer exists, for better or for worse.
“The EU is imposing foreign judges on us”
Here too, I can understand the emotion, even if it is simply a reality that we are not an island and have very powerful neighbours who exert influence on us. (Switzerland would do exactly the same thing…)
All these statements are no excuse for racism, I simply observe again and again that it is basically people who are afraid and long for simple answers and strong leadership.
Fear of strangers, loss and change.
In the end, unfortunately, all that remains is hate and fear.
I am no fan of the SVP, not at all. Can’t stand their economy (non-existing) climate and social policies.. And many people are not either, but when I listen to my friend and family circle, a lot of times I hear that they are the only party (maybe a little bit the Mitte) that address what (according to the Chancenbarometer 2024) is for two-thirds of Swiss a big cause for worry: the sustained increasing immigration due to the FZA which was completely underestimated in the vote about it. Even if that’s not the top focus according to the article.
But this is the one thing that makes the SVP different, which is their very vocal focus against immigration (+ safety / security). I believe if other parties at least acknowledged that the enormous population growth of CH in the last decades has real side effects, things would maybe look different.
A majority of people would also support introduction of immigration quotas (also according to Chancenbarometer) – but whether a majority would be willing to sacrifice EU relations for that and vote accordingly is another question. Probably not.
I believe the rise could also come from the decision of the FDP to support the Bilaterale 3 which their party base was split about (even if the article does not suggest that). The Mitte base is also divided. There have also been several articles in the news that the Bilaterale 3 would lead to easier C-permits for EU/EFTA citizens, which might have influenced opinions right now.
Schizo-boomerism in action…
I’m sorry for taking your jobs as an immigrant friends.
I humbly ask you hang the man who gave me my job and not me when the time comes.
I’m liberal but within my society. I don’t want it to become another society. So while far right parties are unattractive to say the least, I’m by default already halfway to voting for them. Other parties refuse to understand.
Just become an aurtarky like North Korea. No immigration in NK.
Switzerland is simply going through the same thing as the rest of the developed world.
“Someone else is getting what I KNOW I deserve and that needs to stop.”
In Switzerland, at least for know it isn’t racial as much as simple xenophobia.
Stupid. Pro Putin, Pro Trump (not so much anymore LOL), Anti EU, Anti NATO but no problems being freeloader in the world. No problems hoarding money from all evil in the world but hate refugees. Disgusting
SVP and FDP have a 4 out of 7 majority in the executive and that has been the case for ages.
So they control essentially what the country does. So whatever redderick they use about things going downhill is on them and them alone. They are in charge.
On the other hand if they get more votes people obviously like what they are doing.
Else why would they keep voting the same……
Well well well, isn’t that the fault of the shitty political stances from the left?
The most surprising part of this is that it’s the first time
I hate to admit it as a former lefty, but I could see myself voting for SVP 2026 and especially for the initiative SVP is doing about the 10M threshold. The left needs to wake up and needs to make some concessions to win back voters. AHV 13 was the final straw for me. More recently I am immensly disappointed what happened one month ago with the ‘Eigenmoetwert’-vote. I had the feeling the left did NOT do enough during that campaign.
I really hope I can vote for the green party/SP once again…
The usual paradoxon:
The deeper the world sinks into shit due to right-wing policies everywhere, the more support the right-wing policies get.
It’s a game the right can’t lose. The more they fail -> the more votes they’ll get -> the more opportunities to fail even harder they’ll have in the next cycle.
You know this party is bullshit since they keep saying they are anti-system, but is the biggest party of the system…
I just can’t understand how are they not seeing that there economic/immigration ideas would wreck us all… not talking about them fighting air and people follow them…