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Protestant Party

This content was published on Nov 30, 2007 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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Federal Democratic Union

This content was published on Nov 30, 2007 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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Communist Party

This content was published on Nov 30, 2007 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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Christian Social Party

This content was published on Nov 30, 2007 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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Lega dei Ticinesi

This content was published on Nov 30, 2007 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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Cabinet backs Blocher in prosecutor dispute

This content was published on Nov 29, 2007 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…

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Schmid explores military missions in Africa

This content was published on Nov 29, 2007 Parliament earlier this year called for an increase in the number of Swiss soldiers on peacekeeping mission abroad. Schmid met Mali’s president, Amadou Toumani Touré, in Bamako on Wednesday for talks focusing on peace promotion in Africa and on an uprising led by Tuareg nomads in northeastern Mali. The authorities in Bamako are interested in…

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Breakthrough announced at Middle East talks

This content was published on Nov 27, 2007 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made the pledge on Tuesday at the Middle East summit in Annapolis. A joint statement read by Olmert, Abbas and President Bush said the talks to start next month would be the first serious and substantive negotiations in seven years. “We express our determination to…