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Anti-Immigration SVP Wins Swiss Election In Swing To Right
Reuters via OANN ^ | October 18, 2015 | Joshua Franklin

Posted on 10/18/2015 1:11:36 PM PDT by SteveinSATX

The anti-immigration Swiss People’s Party (SVP) won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday’s national parliamentary election, initial projections showed, keeping pressure on Bern to introduce quotas on people moving from the European Union.

The result, based on initial projections by Swiss TV, gives the SVP 65 seats in the 200-member lower house of parliament, the largest number for any Swiss party in at least a century.

The SVP’s success, coupled with gains made by the pro-business Liberal Party (FDP), led political commentators to talk of a “Rechtsrutsch” – move to the right – in Swiss politics.

Immigration was the central topic for voters amid a rush of asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe.

“The vote was clear,” SVP leader Toni Brunner told Swiss television. “The people are worried about mass migration to Europe.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: aliens; antiimmigration; austria; europeanunion; france; germany; italy; leichtenstein; nato; svp; swiss; swisselection; swisspeoplesparty; switzerland; unitedkingdom
Although Trump is running on an anti-illegal immigration platform, it seems like the rejection of mass immigration is beginning to rise. There might be a difference between asylum seekers over there and those seeking amnesty on our side but it's two sides of the same coin if you ask me.
1 posted on 10/18/2015 1:11:36 PM PDT by SteveinSATX
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To: SteveinSATX

They must have seen this before voting...

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE


2 posted on 10/18/2015 1:16:03 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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To: SteveinSATX

Hurrah, Swiss.


3 posted on 10/18/2015 1:18:29 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: SteveinSATX

Obama is sad, the Swiss need a little more “democracy” over there, I’m sure he’ll arrange help.


4 posted on 10/18/2015 1:29:04 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: All

Well, if self-preservation is moving to the right, then what can we infer about moving to the left?


5 posted on 10/18/2015 1:36:03 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (I gotta get a tattoo at 12:30 and I don't want to be late.)
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To: GOPJ

Thanks. Just watched the video.


6 posted on 10/18/2015 1:37:35 PM PDT by all the best
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To: SteveinSATX
I really think that the Swiss got one thing in particular right... "mandatory" enlistment in the Swiss Army.

Regardless of an individual's political inclinations, it imprints the national identity, and makes every citizen, regardless of the 4 different languages spoken in the nation, stakeholders in affairs impacting the security of the State.

7 posted on 10/18/2015 1:37:42 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: SteveinSATX

Go SVP, go!


8 posted on 10/18/2015 1:38:51 PM PDT by I Hired Craig Livingstone (DT16. Deal with it.)
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To: all the best

If you liked it, spread it. People don’t understand the math behind the hopelessness of trying to solve this problem by opening borders...


9 posted on 10/18/2015 1:42:37 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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To: SteveinSATX

“Anti immigration”

Not, that’s not it. Love Reuters keeping consistent with their lies.


10 posted on 10/18/2015 1:46:37 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: GOPJ

Re-colonization is the answer.


11 posted on 10/18/2015 2:06:51 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: SteveinSATX

Facts:

1) Except in the very odd/exceptional election year of 1964, the Dems haven’t cracked 50% of the whites in a Presidential election since 1932.

2) Once the ‘64 election was over, the Dems understood that they would never win another Presidential election again unless the Republicans REALLY screwed up...or unless they changed the electorate in a dramatic way.

3) The Dems, courtesy of Bobby Kennedy who wrote the law, and Teddy Kennedy who pushed it in the Senate, passed the 1965 Immigration Act. That law dramatically reduced immigration from our then-traditional large sources of immigrants - England, Ireland, Holland, Germany, etc. - and replaced them with vast numbers of Turd Worlders...whom everyone knows vote around 80% for Dems, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives, as new immigrants have traditionally done.

4) As a result of the ‘65 Act, and due to the Dem’s outright lying in ‘86 regarding an effective (or any) fence, there are now probably 30 - 40 million illegals in this nation. Note that the (probably low-ball) figure in 2005 was 11 million...we have 2-3 million come in every year, so simple math says that the number is actually somewhere between 31 and 41 million). If any substantial portion of these people ever become citizens, then the Dems will have accomplished a complete shift of the electorate, and will be virtually invincible on the national level. Every state will become like California, both politically and economically - which is to say, overwhelming Dem and broke. But at least if you don’t like California now, you can leave for a better place without much trouble - where are you going to go if EVERY state is like that?

5) Every Republican, and every Conservative voter MUST UNDERSTAND that if such a state of affairs comes to be, NO OTHER ISSUE WILL MATTER AT ALL, because we will ALWAYS AND FOREVER lose on those issues. Immigration is THE issue of this election, and this election is as critical as the 1860 election was - and for the same reason, because it will determine whether this nation continues on as it has existed in the past, or becomes a new and unrecognizable entity that simply occupies the same geographic territory.

Please wake up, and help others to do so by sending them this post (or recommending “Adios America” to them). It really is THAT important.


12 posted on 10/18/2015 2:34:19 PM PDT by Ultima
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The result, based on initial projections by Swiss TV, gives the SVP 65 seats in the 200-member lower house of parliament, the largest number for any Swiss party in at least a century.

13 posted on 10/18/2015 2:47:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Ultima
Immigration is THE issue of this election, and this election is as critical as the 1860 election was - and for the same reason, because it will determine whether this nation continues on as it has existed in the past, or becomes a new and unrecognizable entity that simply occupies the same geographic territory.



14 posted on 10/18/2015 6:48:13 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: itsahoot

Immigration has been a MAJOR issue since 1965. Not just illegal but LEGAL immigration as well. Unfortunately the Republicans were asleep white Rats brought in tens of millions of votes for them.


15 posted on 10/18/2015 8:24:04 PM PDT by Ultima
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To: Ultima
Republicans were asleep white Rats brought in tens of millions of votes for them.

Maybe not so much asleep as bought.

16 posted on 10/18/2015 11:35:14 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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