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Left gains more ground in local elections

This content was published on Apr 10, 2006 Political analyst Hanspeter Kriesi told swissinfo that voters were increasingly fed up with the “arrogance” of the right and saw the Greens as the new liberals. The left gained the upper hand in Bern’s cantonal elections on Sunday, with three Social Democrats and a Green elected to the seven-member government. The press described the result…