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/ 22 October 2007
The nationalist Swiss People’s Party received the highest vote recorded to date for an individual political party in Switzerland, after a bitter campaign blaming foreigners for much of the country’s crime, according to official results released on Monday. The Federal Statistics Office put the party on 29% after Sunday’s elections.
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/ 14 October 2007
”It’s not like we’re England,” said the old woman sharing a flask of coffee with her middle-aged daughter on the train from Geneva to Zurich. ”They had the colonies, and we didn’t,” she adds, to explain the nature of Britain’s racial mix and why Switzerland does not need one. ”I worry,” says her daughter, ”there will be a putsch against him.”