Public broadcaster SSR reports party on track to win 29% of vote, an increase of almost 3.5 percentage points on 2019 results
A ballot being cast in the Swiss federal election. SVP has taken a hardline stance against mass migration and what it called ‘woke madness’.A ballot being cast in the Swiss federal election. SVP has taken a hardline stance against mass migration and what it called ‘woke madness’.
The exit polls suggest that despite Switzerland’s high proportion of foreign residents and its status as one of the world’s richest countries, SVP’sAmong the party’s proposals was a bid to cap the country’s population, now at 8.8 million, to 10 million until 2050,for the SVP, which for two decades has ranked as the largest faction in parliament.
Thomas Aeschi, head of the SVP parliamentary group, told the AFP news agency that the SVP “wants good relations with the European Union but what we don’t want is an agreement where Switzerland must do what the EU says”.
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