How to vote the Swiss way
November 25, 2020, 1 Comment
The Swiss vote. A lot. But most of those votes are in referendums every few months, whereas elections are every four years....
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The Swiss vote. A lot. But most of those votes are in referendums every few months, whereas elections are every four years....
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Smaller than in America, fairer than in China: elections are being held in Bern on Sunday.
LEARN MORE ›May 9, 2012, 16 Comments
33 days. That’s how long it took for Michele Bachmann to become Swiss, via her husband.
LEARN MORE ›October 27, 2011, 3 Comments
Now that the last seat in the National Council has been filled (see below), attention switches to the Council of States.
LEARN MORE ›October 24, 2011, 19 Comments
Swiss politics became the ultimate soufflé yesterday: full of hot air and with the middle rising nicely.
LEARN MORE ›October 18, 2011, 19 Comments
On Sunday Switzerland votes for a new parliament. But Swiss elections aren’t like most others.
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Election posters went up today all over Bern, and no doubt elsewhere across Switzerland.
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This Sunday there’s a by-election in Canton Bern that wouldn’t normally get too much coverage, even in a country that lives, eats...
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Public spaces and squares all across Bern are currently hosting a new form of street furniture: large metal stands, each shaped like...
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