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Far-right general election victory

01 August 2003

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The far-right Peoples Party (SVP), led by the anti-immigrant German-speaking billionaire Christoph Blocher, won 27% of the votes in October's parliamentary election, winning an extra 11 seats in the lower house of parliament and increasing its total number of seats to 55. The Social Democrats received 23% of the vote and the Greens nearly 8% The right wing Radicals (FDP) and Christian Democrats were the main losers. The SVP ran a virulent anti-foreigner campaign, in which asylum seekers were demonised as criminals and drug dealers. It was criticised by the United Nations refugee agency who said that it was some of the most anti-asylum advertisements ever seen in Europe. Boucher is expected to take a second seat on the seven-member cabinet.

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