Exit polls showed Switzerland's right-wing populist party was set to further strengthen its position as the largest faction in parliament.
Members of the National Council pose for a group picture on the last day of the legislature before national elections in October at the Swiss Parliament Building in Bern, Switzerland on Sept. 29, 2023.Exit polls conducted for Switzerland's public broadcaster showed the country's right-wing populist party was set to further strengthen its position as the largest faction in parliament in a legislative election Sunday that saw the leading Green party lose ground.
After the election held in Poland last week, the Swiss vote showed another slice of the European electorate thinking about how to balance the appeal of right-wing populist politics and the need to spend money and resources to fight global warming at a time of rising inflation that has pinched many pocketbooks — even in well-to-do Switzerland.
Outside a polling station in the quaint Geneva neighborhood of Carouge, Claudine Juillard, a retiree, said she selected a variety of candidates but mostly voted Socialist.Marine Chatelenat, a teacher, said she was voting for a mix of Green and Socialist candidates.
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