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Between 1919 and 1987, its share of the vote was stable at around 20 per cent, but since the end of the 1980s the party has steadily lost voters. In the 1999 elections, it gained only 15.9 per cent of the vote, the worst result of all the governing parties. The party lost even more…
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Up until 1943 the party held the majority in the seven-member cabinet and was the largest party in parliament until 1999. Since 1993, however, the centre-right Radicals have been steadily losing support, taking only 15.6 per cent of the vote in the 2007 elections. It is the third largest group in the House of Representatives…
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From 1917 to 1919 it had one seat in cabinet. Over the past 30 years the party has regularly gained between two and three per cent of the vote in parliamentary elections. It won 1.8 per cent of the vote in the 2007 polls and has four seats in the House of Representatives.
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For many years the party was the protestant opposition to the Catholic conservatives. Since 1971 its share of the votes has been constant at about two per cent. The party lost one of its three seats in the House of Representatives in the 2007 elections.
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It has had some success in Bern and won its first seat in parliament in 1991. Although the party is active in several cantons, it has not been able to build up its strength further. It achieved just 1.3 per cent of the votes in the 2003 and 2007 elections.
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The party was a clear supporter of the Soviet position and gained in popularity after the Second World War. But voters later turned away following Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956 and heightened tensions during the Cold War. The party has continued its downward slide due to competition from other left-leaning parties. It is now…
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The Christian Social Party stands more to the left of the political spectrum and is based on the principles of Christian social teaching and social ethics. It has parties in the cantons of Fribourg, Graubünden, Jura, Lucerne and Zurich and over the past few decades has achieved around 0.4 per cent of the vote.
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Since then its fortunes have risen and fallen, and it has lost and regained seats in parliament. In 2003 it even lost seats in the cantonal parliament. The party now has just one seat in the House of Representatives, and it decided to join the parliamentary group of the Swiss People’s Party.
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It was the cabinet’s first official response to accusations made by a parliamentary control committee nearly three months ago that Blocher had mishandled the departure of Valentin Roschacher. Making its findings public on Thursday, the cabinet said it did not share the committee’s criticism of Blocher, but did agree that the Swiss judiciary needed to…
