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Switzerland projected to shift to right in national elections
  + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/4] General view of the snow-covered mountains of the Bernese Alps, Eiger, Moench and Jungfrau, as seen from Bern, Switzerland October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann Acquire Licensing RightsZURICH, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Switzerland looked set to shift to the right in its national elections on Sunday, as concerns about immigration and political correctness trumped fears about climate change and melting glaciers. Switzerland's second biggest party was poised to increase its share by 0.4 percentage points of the vote to 17.2%. In contrast, the Greens were expected to see their share of the votes fall by 4.1 percentage points to 9.1%. "The SVP has done well because it has raised fears about 'wokeness' and also focused on migration again,” said Hermann.
Persons: Arnd, pollsters GFS, Michael Hermann, , Hermann, John Revill, Cecile Mantovani, Barbara Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Swiss People's Party, SRF, pollsters, Social Democrats, Greens, Federal Council, Thomson Locations: Bernese, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss, pollsters GFS Bern
PARLIAMENT 'CIRCUMVENTED'The Credit Suisse/UBS merger marked the first time that parliament had withheld its support for emergency laws designed to deal quickly with crises. Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter defended the use of the emergency powers, saying Switzerland was not an "emergency dictatorship." "The emergency law is based on the federal constitution and I don't think it's correct to say it's illegal." "Politicians might have wanted to show their disapproval about what happened, but they don’t want the UBS takeover to fail." The use of such emergency legislation, overturning antitrust rules, is a problem for Swiss democracy and rule of law.
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