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Right-wing surge in Swiss election

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na Gaeil is gile [OP]

2003-10-16 09:36 | User Profile

TimesOnline

Right-wing surge in Swiss election By Roger Boyes

A BILLIONAIRE industrialist has surged ahead in Switzerland’s general election campaign with an anti-immigrant and anti-European Union platform that could radically change the country’s image as a model of racial tolerance.

Christoph Blocher’s taboo-breaking poster campaign has polarised the country and boosted his support to more than 25 per cent, clearly outstripping his nearest rivals, the Social Democrats. One poster launched by his Swiss People’s Party (SVP) caricatured a black face accompanied by the slogan: “The Swiss are becoming Negroes.”

This poster was removed after protests, but others still plastered across Swiss cities include a series of police mugshots of criminals. The caption reads: “Our Dear Foreigners.”

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A billionaire on our side?!

N.B. Forrest

2003-10-16 10:10 | User Profile

Fantastic news. Blocher has the potential to do great things for Switzerland - and even for other struggling White nationalist efforts, should he decide to judiciously disperse a few spare millions.