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 Post subject: Racism Pays Off For Swiss Party
 Post Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:09 am 
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We are talking about Switzerland? I never thought I would see this type of progress in the country.


GENEVA, Oct. 21 — After a campaign widely criticized as racist, Switzerland’s far-right Swiss People’s Party strengthened its position as the biggest single party in Parliament in a general election on Sunday, according to a projection after voting ended.

The party appeared set to win 29 percent of the vote and gain 7 parliamentary seats, for 62 seats in the 200-seat federal Parliament, after campaigning aggressively on an anti-immigrant ticket that featured posters showing white sheep kicking a black sheep away from a Swiss flag. “It’s the party’s best score since 1919,” said Yvan Perrin, a party member in Parliament.

The largest party on the left, the Social Democratic Party, was projected to win 19.


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Interesting. I'm not sure what to make of it yet though.

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Testing Testing. My posts aren't working... test....

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Okay--I re-type my original response--luckily I hadn't typed much. I'm getting really frustrated with this forum....



I am also going to have to wait to see how this transpires. I don't really know how I feel about it right now.

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Tumbleweed wrote:
Interesting. I'm not sure what to make of it yet though.


There were protests a bout a week before the election where leftist were accused of attacking a meeting of the SPP, the ultra-Right.

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Kizzume wrote:
Okay--I re-type my original response--luckily I hadn't typed much. I'm getting really frustrated with this forum....



I am also going to have to wait to see how this transpires. I don't really know how I feel about it right now.



Kissume--What part is frustrating? The posting prob? I had a prob about 2 weeks ago and it was not the forum's prob, but rather was with my ISP. contsact Coyote, he is a genius with this stuff.

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The wait to see how it transpires was on the actual subject.

As far as the posting frustration--it lasted for two posts and disappeared, never happened again.

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AS long as it rights itself, but I know what you mean about the frustration,

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