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Wilf Day
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posted 22 October 2003 03:14 AM      Profile for Wilf Day     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The press is excited about a few more rightists just elected to the Swiss Parliament. Meanwhile, it has 17 new female members, including:

Evi Allemann, 25, socialist, Bern
Chantal Galladé, 30, socialist, Zurich
Géraldine Savary, 34, socialist, journalist, Lausanne
Christa Markwalder, 26, Free Democrat (liberal), Bern
and even, unfortunately, one red-haired rightist (no resemblance to Audra, surely):
Jasmin Hutter, 25, St. Gallen
Plus five more new socialist women, one further left, one Green, two more Free Democrats, one Liberal, one Christian Democrat, and one Ticino Radical Liberal.

Evi was first elected to the Canton parliament at age 18, the youngest in the history of Switzerland. Her bio en francais is cool:

quote:
Un goût de révolte - des Jeunes Socialistes au Conseil National!

Evi Allemann (25), candidate de la Jeunesse Socialiste bernoise, se présente sur la liste des Femmes Socialistes bernoises, à l'élection au Conseil National du 19 octobre 2003. Côte à côte avec les trois autres candidat-e-s de la Jeunesse Socialiste, Nasha Gagnebin (Orvin, 22), Patric Bhend (Thoune, 26) et Miriam Minder (Langnau, 18), elle s'engage passionnément pour une société plus sociale et solidaire, un environnement sain, une formation forte et des droits égaux pour toute forme de minorité.

Née à Berne, elle a vécue son enfance à Grossaffoltern et Spiegel près de Köniz et a terminée le Gymnase à Köniz en 1998. Un mois plus tard, elle a été élue au Grand Conseil du canton de Berne. Elle fut la plus jeune parlementaire cantonale dans l’histoire de notre pays!

Ses hobbies sont les courses d’orientation, son engagement au sein du projet «Variant 5» pour des jeunes en Bulgarie et elle apprécie tout particulièrement de passer un peu de son temps libre avec ses amis.


[ 22 October 2003: Message edited by: Wilfred Day ]


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Willowdale Wizard
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posted 22 October 2003 02:06 PM      Profile for Willowdale Wizard   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
in another thread on belgium, and now this one on switzerland,

you downplay the threat from European far-right parties.

why?

i mean, you characterize the ch election as:

quote:
The press is excited about a few more rightists just elected to the Swiss Parliament

when the reality is:

quote:
"In the run-up to the polls, the SVP put up election posters of a black face accompanied by the slogan: 'The Swiss are becoming Negroes.' They also ran posters showing mugshots of criminals next to the words 'Our Dear Foreigners'. Last week the United Nations High Commission for Refugees attacked the campaign as 'atrocious'.

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Wilf Day
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posted 22 October 2003 09:27 PM      Profile for Wilf Day     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm not downplaying anything. I'm pointing out the good news about women that the press didn't consider news.

Here is a more balanced report.

quote:
A VICTORY FOR THE SOCIALIST YOUTH AND THE LEFT, BUT A TIDAL WAVE FOR THE EXTREME RIGHT!
Press releases , 20/10/2003 07:33

Swiss Socialist Youth (JS Suisse) is delighted by the excellent election to the National Council of JS Bern deputy Evi Allemann, who at age 25 and thanks to her surprising 2nd place on the Bern Socialist Women list will ensure that the JS is once again represented directly in Parliament by the youngest National Councillor. . . . Moreover, the JS Suisse is delighted by the good results of JS lists and the candidates of the JS on Socialist Party lists across Switzerland. If the JS Suisse notes the progress of the left with satisfaction, it on the other hand is shocked by the victories of the SVP. For the JS Suisse, is hard to conceive that the Socialist Party can govern together with the Blocher wing of the SVP.


However, one needs to understand that this was a mostly a swing from the centre-right to the farther right: the Christian Democrats lost 6 seats to the SVP (and also lost 1 to the Christian-democratic EDU which is a wash), the Liberals lost 2 to them, and the conservative Ticino League lost 1 to them. But the SVP also gained 2 seats from the centre-left. Worrying, but no landslide. Out of 200 seats, a 1% shift to the right. The centre-left also lost 6 seats to the left: 4 more Greens, 1 more Socialist, and 1 more farther-left.

[ 23 October 2003: Message edited by: Wilfred Day ]


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