“SVP and and other center-right parties have the majority, and did already I think. Yet they still allow the socialists to be part of the government. I have to call fail on their system.”
By my count, the SVP and the other right-wing or center-right parties (FDP, CVP, BDP, Ticino League and MCG) won 135 out of 200 seats, which is a whopping 67.5%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_federal_election,_2015 Why the heck would the Socialists (who not only are overtly opposed to capitalism, but are in favor of joining the EU)have to be invited to the governing coalition? Let them suck wind in the opposition.
I just don’t get it. I would put a muzzle on them, in spirit if not in fact.
Switzerland has a long history of all the major parties being in government together in a grand coalition. Only in recent elections has the ratio of seats in Cabinet even changed (A moderate faction broke off from the SVP, the CDP) it was unchanged for almost 50 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Council#Grand_coalition.2C_1959.E2.80.932003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_formula
It’s totes fruity.
I certainly hope the socialists will be excluded now but I doubt it.
In Austria after their last election the center-right d-bag party chose to continue being Jr. Partner with the socialists in a grand coalition rather than leading a center-right government. Europeans.