The party has obtained nine more seats than in 2019, while the environmentalists have lost four
The far-right Swiss People’s Party (SVP) won the parliamentary elections this Sunday with 28.9 percent of the votes, 3.3 percent more than in the 2019 elections, and which translates into 62 seats of the 200 that were at stake.
Meanwhile, the environmental parties have lost up to four percentage points of their votes, falling to 9.2 percent, as reported by the news portal Swissinfo.
So, The extreme right has gained nine seats compared to the previous parliamentary compositionwhile the Social Democrats have gained two more (a total of 41 seats), the Center Party one (with 29 in total), the Radical Liberal Party has lost one seat (dropping to 28), the Green Party drops up to 23 seats and the Liberal Green Party up to ten, losing five and six seats respectively.
“The sad thing is that the climate has lost,” The vice president of the Green Party, Aline Trede, has assured the Swiss network SRF, according to the DPA news agency.
For his part, the vice president of SVP, Marcel Dettling, has assured that “it is urgent to correct the course” of the country because “the people have spoken.” The SVP was already within the previous government coalition and has been the most voted party in the country for more than 20 years.
Among their claims are the demand for border controls, the rejection of asylum seekers, cut social spending and development aid and avoid greater rapprochement with the European Union.