Since then, the Swiss People's Party has moved to the extreme right and is no longer considered to be conservative.

These include the largest, the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ), the Christian Democratic People's Party ( CVP ), represented in the Federal Council or cabinet by Doris Leuthard ( in 2011 ), and the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland ( BDP ), which is a spliter of the SVP created after a failed attempt to expel Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf from the SVP.

Swiss Democrats, Ticino League, Swiss People's Party are against accession of Switzerland to the European Union.

From 1959 to 2003 the Federal Council was composed of a coalition of all major parties in the same ratio: 2 each from the Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and Christian Democratic People's Party and 1 from the Swiss People's Party.

The five parties represented in the Federal Council are generally called the government parties: Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party, Christian Democratic Party, Swiss People's Party, and Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland.

The rightist Swiss People's Party ( SVP ), traditionally the junior partner in the four-party coalition government, more than doubled its voting share from 11. 0 % in 1987 to 22. 5 % in 1999, thus overtaking its three coalition partners.

Since 1959 the seven-seat cabinet had comprised 2 Free Democrats, 2 Christian Democrats, 2 Social Democrats, and 1 Swiss People's Party, but in 2004, the Swiss People's Party took one seat from the Christian Democrats.

Because of the split-off of the Conservative Democratic Party from the Swiss People's Party in 2008, since then the latter holds again only one seat in the Federal Council as of 2011.

In Austria, Italy and Switzerland, the Freedom Party of Austria, Lega Nord and Swiss People's Party, respectively, were at times also part of the national governments, and in Denmark, the Danish People's Party tolerated a right-liberal minority government from 2001 throughout the decade.

* Swiss People's Party ( Union Démocratique du Centre ), a Swiss political party

In 2010, a motion by members of the nationalist Swiss People's Party ( SVP ) has been submitted to the Swiss parliament requesting the admission of adjacent territories to the Swiss Confederation ; Como ( and its province ) is one of these.

: Australia, Botswana, British West Indies, Brunei, Canada ( English-speaking ), Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Korea ( both North and South ), Lebanon, Luxembourg ( uses both marks officially ), Macau ( in Chinese and English text ), Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, People's Republic of China, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Switzerland ( when the amount is in Swiss francs ), Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States ( including insular areas ), Zimbabwe.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 9 December 1987, as member of the Swiss People's Party from the Canton of Berne.

In Switzerland, Trotsky briefly worked within the Swiss Socialist Party, prompting it to adopt an internationalist resolution, and wrote a book against the war, The War and the International.

He was elected to the Federal Council on December 5, 1979 as a member of the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ) from the Canton of Graubünden ( Grisons ).

* Swiss People's Party ( SVP ): 1 member.

He was a member of the Swiss People's Party ( SVP / UDC ), and is now a member of the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland.

He represented the canton of Zürich in the Swiss National Council from 1980 until his election to the federal council in 2003 as a deputy of the Swiss People's Party ( Schweizerische Volkspartei / Union démocratique du centre ; SVP / UDC ).

The Swiss People's Party (, SVP ), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (,, UDC ), is a national conservative and right-wing populist political party in Switzerland.

In 1971, the BGB changed its name to the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ) after it merged with the Democratic Party from Glarus and Graubünden.

According to the SVP, this influence, especially through international law, increasingly puts the Swiss direct democracy in question.

The international law, which according to the SVP is not democratically legitimate, shall always be subordinate to the Swiss law.

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ) which received 33. 8 % of the vote.

From 2000 until November 26, 2004, he was Secretary General of the Young SVP, the youth section of the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ).

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ) which received 35. 8 % of the vote.

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ) which received 29. 6 % of the vote.

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ) which received 35. 2 % of the vote.

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ) which received 41. 9 % of the vote.

When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

This was, in fact, Swiss Reformed theologian, Karl Barth's, understanding of the doctrine of election.

There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

An early theory, suggested by Swiss theologian Jean LeClerc in the 17th century, posits that the longer Western version was a first draft, while the Alexandrian version represents a more polished revision by the same author.

Nevertheless, there was also a migratory flow of German, Swiss, and Middle-Eastern immigrants arriving in Argentina.

Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966 ) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

Giacometti was born in Borgonovo, now part of the Swiss municipality of Stampa, near the Italian border.

On 27 December 1797, the last Tagsatzung of the Old Swiss Confederacy was held in Aarau.

The city was linked up to the Swiss Central Railway in 1856.

It developed a good reputation, and was home to Nobel Prize winners Albert Einstein, Paul Karrer, and Werner Arber, as well as several Swiss politicians and authors.

The Habsburgs founded a number of monasteries ( with some structures enduring, e. g., in Wettingen and Muri ), the closing of which by the government in 1841 was a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Swiss civil war – the " Sonderbund War " – in 1847.

The County of Baden was a shared condominium of the entire Old Swiss Confederacy.

Fricktal, ceded in 1802 by Austria via Napoleonic France to the Helvetic Republic, was briefly a separate Swiss canton under a Statthalter (' Lieutenant '), but on 9 March 1803 was incorporated in the canton of Aargau.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

The centre was formed by the mass of Dutch, German, Protestant Swiss and Scottish infantry – perhaps 30, 000 men – facing Offus and Ramillies.

But on his arrival, all was chaos – " Scarcely had my troops got over when the dragoons and Swiss who had preceded us, came tumbling down upon my battalions in full flight … My own fellows turned about and fled along with them.

Her mother was born Countess Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.

The first exchange system was the Swiss WIR Bank.

Brick was revived for high structures in the 1950s following work by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Building Research Establishment in Watford, UK.

The airport itself is split into two architecturally independent sectors, one half serving the French side and the other half serving the Swiss side ; prior to Schengen there was a customs point at the middle of the airport so that people could " emigrate " to the other side of the airport.

The total Swiss population change in 2008 ( from all sources, including moves across municipal borders ) was an increase of 278 and the non-Swiss population increased by 1138 people.

the average price to rent an average apartment in Basel was 1118. 60 Swiss francs ( CHF ) per month ( US $ 890, £ 500, € 720 approx.

In 2012 it was reported that a Swiss woman died of starvation after having attempted to survive on light alone, based on one of Jasmuheen's books.