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Political positions of the Swiss political parties based on their referendum voting recommendations, 1985–90 and 2010–14. This is a list of political parties in Switzerland. Switzerland has a multi-party system. Since 1959, the four largest parties have formed a coalition government, according to a Zauberformel or "magic formula". This ...
Political positions of the Swiss political parties based on their referendum voting recommendations, 1985-90 and 2010-14. Switzerland has a stable government, with democratic power sharing through consociationalism. Most voters support the government in its philosophy of armed neutrality underlying its foreign and defense policies.
Cantonal political parties in Switzerland (1 C, 9 P) Centrist parties in Switzerland (6 P) D. Defunct political parties in Switzerland (5 C, 18 P) E.
The Swiss People's Party (German: Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP; Romansh: Partida populara Svizra, PPS), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (French: Union démocratique du centre, UDC; Italian: Unione Democratica di Centro, UDC), is a national-conservative [13] [14] and right-wing populist [15] political party in Switzerland.
A highly unique characteristic of Switzerland is that all executives, from the federal level to even the smallest town at the municipal level, are led by a collective body of individuals (versus a single President or Prime Minister as in other countries). These executives often include members from several political parties.
In elections, political parties publish lists in the cantons with their candidates. Each list contains at most the number of candidates which the canton is entitled to send to the National Council. In addition, each party can produce multiple lists to the canton (e.g. men's, women's, youth, or seniors' lists; in larger cantons they might offer ...
Ils Liberals) is a liberal [8] [9] political party in Switzerland. The party was formed on 1 January 2009, after two parties, the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD) and the smaller Liberal Party (LPS/PLS), united. In Vaud and Valais, the parties retain separate organisations. Its youth organisation is Young Liberals
Formerly one of the major parties in Switzerland, on 1 January 2009 it merged with the Liberal Party of Switzerland to form FDP. The Liberals . The FDP was formed in 1894 from the Radicals , who had dominated Swiss politics since the 1830s, standing in opposition to the Catholic conservatives , and who from the creation of the federal state in ...