Swiss General Elections 2011 (Elections to the Federal Council)

[Insula Dei]

What Canton do you live in ZuWo?

[Insula Dei]

The red spot in the North is Basel?

[Insula Dei]

The CVP poster is a thing of beauty.

[Insula Dei]

Good to see the SVP lose a bit of ground. Sad to see the Greens lose a bit of ground Wtf at SF1's headline saying the Green-Liberals and the BDP won this election, when all they did was get over 5%

[Insula Dei]

Good to see the SVP lose a bit of ground. Sad to see the Greens lose a bit of ground Wtf at SF1's headline saying the Green-Liberals and the BDP won this election, when all they did was get over 5%

They were the only parties that gained in percentage terms. That's why they are "winners".

Yeah, but their result is hardly a shocker, I'd say. Anyway, the SVP losing its cloak of invincibility might be the start of its decline, one would hope. There are few things worse for a certain class of rightist-populist parties than losing an election.

[Insula Dei]

Good to see the SVP lose a bit of ground. Sad to see the Greens lose a bit of ground Wtf at SF1's headline saying the Green-Liberals and the BDP won this election, when all they did was get over 5%

Who else do you think won? They took enough votes and seats to be factors to be reckoned with in the future.

Yeah, but that just highlights how utterly stable the Swiss system is, as in just about any other country on earth these result would generate headlines pointing to a status quo, and the BDP, Green-Liberal results would be seen as slightly less important than those of the main parties.

[Insula Dei]

So, this is the future?
Parties like "D66", Greenies, Ross Perot and that clown Berlusconi?

While all the great parties based on the political philosophy of the last 150 years are loosing ground from election to election?

No, I don't like this.