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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam and agencies

Projected results show rightwing SVP making gains in Swiss federal elections

A ballot being cast in the Swiss federal election.
A ballot being cast in the Swiss federal election. SVP has taken a hardline stance against mass migration and what it called ‘woke madness’. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

The rightwing populist Swiss People’s party (SVP) was set to further strengthen its position as the largest political force in parliament, an early projection suggested, as voters appeared to back the party’s hardline stance against mass migration and what it called “woke madness”.

The SVP was on track to receive 29% of the vote, an increase of nearly 3.5 percentage points over its 2019 results, pollsters GFS Bern predicted, with more than half of the results in.

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