Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: La Svizzera svolta a destra !!

www.telegraph.co.uk
 
Swiss Right-winger shatters consensus
By Fiona Fleck in Geneva
(Filed: 11/12/2003) 
A right-wing populist stormed into the Swiss cabinet yesterday, 
challenging and defeating a cabinet minister in a dramatic vote in 
parliament that shattered a 44-year-old power-sharing agreement.
 
[[Picture] Christoph Blocher gestures during his acceptance speech 
to the Swiss parliament ]
Christoph Blocher, 63, whose anti-immigration Swiss People's Party 
gained the largest share of the vote in a general election in 
October, won an absolute majority in the Berne parliament in the 
third round of voting against the justice minister, Ruth Metzler.
Under the Swiss political system, coalition parties propose 
ministerial candidates who seek a vote of support from parliament 
every year in December. Ministers can remain in place for years 
until they resign or retire.
Mrs Metzler, 39, the youngest cabinet member, resigned from her 
post - the first time in 130 years a minister was ousted in this way.
The vote marked an end to Switzerland's "magic formula", a 
power-sharing deal established in 1959 that reflected the size of 
each party at the time, under which the People's Party has one 
cabinet seat, while the other three coalition parties have two each.
After yesterday's vote that changed and the People's Party now have 
two ministers, Mr Blocher and the defence minister, Samuel Schmid, 
while the Christian Democrats have only one cabinet post.
It was not clear which ministerial portfolio Mr Blocher would take 
up.
Ministers divide portfolios among themselves: longest-serving 
members take first choice while newcomers take what is left - a 
convention which Mr Blocher, who has pledged to take a tougher 
stance on immigration and asylum, is unlikely to accept.
The Swiss People's Party was originally a farmers' party which 
entered parliament in 1929 and was the smallest in Berne until the 
1990s.
Mr Blocher, a billionaire industrialist, has often been compared to 
far-Right leaders such as Austria's Jorg Haider and Jean-Marie Le 
Pen of France but analysts argue that he is less extreme. 
He and his party have often been accused of xenophobia, most 
recently after an election campaign that blamed "criminal 
foreigners" and "asylum scroungers" for Switzerland's ills.
 
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2003.
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Padania libera !
La capitale e' la gran Milàn !
Federalismo subito o secessione armata !
Los von Rom !
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Per non dimenticare: tra il 1987 e il 1994, la polizia di stato
italiana incaricata di rapinare banche, uffici postali, stazioni di
servizio e supermercati ha ucciso in Emilia Romagna 24 persone
ferendone piu' di 100. Nel solo assalto all'ufficio postale di via
Mazzini a Bologna, l'esplosione provocata dai poliziotti fece 40
feriti. Per contro, i reati che rimangono impuniti sono l'80.4% su
scala regionale (dato riferito all'Emilia-Romagna) e l'82% su scala
nazionale. Per il conseguimento di tali risultati degni di una
satrapia islamica, lo stato italiano estorce a noi cittadini del Nord
fino al 72% del reddito in tasse.
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"Il tricolore e' bello da vedere,
quando ricopre la cassa del carabiniere"
"Immigration's up, treaty costs up, crime's up... Had enough?"

 (Filed: 11/12/2003)
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Bye
Joao