People's choice: elections in Switzerland gives hope for growth of cooperation with Russia

The results of the parliamentary elections in Switzerland gives hope of strengthening inter-parliamentary cooperation with Russia, believes the 1st Deputy Chairman of the Department of the state Duma on industry, coordinator of the parliamentary friendship group for relations with the Swiss Parliament Vladimir Gutenev.

on Sunday, Switzerland has chosen a new Parliament, made of 2 chambers: National Council and Council of States. The second round of elections candidates for space in the Council of States in some areas of Switzerland will be held on November 19. The results of the elections to the national Council were announced on the night of Monday.

The results of Sunday's vote were expected. Two major Swiss political Parties, the right-wing has significantly reinforced its place among voters. Ogromnaya Swiss people's party (SNP), which before the election had a 54 space 200-member National Council, on the results of voting will now have eleven more seats. One of the themes of the election campaign the SNP was the toughening of the migration policy of Switzerland. In government the SNP represented by a head of the Federal Department (Ministry) of defence, civil protection and sport waley Maurer (Ueli Maurer).

review guteneva, the broad support of the Swiss people's Party is due, most importantly, her own opinion on the format of cooperation in Europe.

"The SNP actively campaigned against the entry of Switzerland into the EU and open to migrants of borders. In addition, Party members with considerable sympathetic to Russia's policy on Ukraine. This position, which Swiss people's party is actively reproduces, has led to an increase in the number of mandates due to lowering of the liberal parties such as the Green Party and " Green liberals ". The results of the parliamentary elections in Switzerland gives hope of strengthening inter-parliamentary cooperation with Russia ", - said Gutenev correspondents.

He said that the position of the current leadership of most European countries, as well as among them German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, " persisting in their determination to impose alien European inhabitant values and moving in the footsteps of American politics, already, leads to the growth of nationalist sentiments ".

"for this reason Not so far the time clashes with a very incorrect speaker itself part of migrants will turn into a serious battle. I do not exclude that there will be separate settlements built on the principles of segregation, and maybe will start to deport those people who currently connect their expectations with the democratic Europe ", - said Gutenev.

the people's choice showed that the Russian Federation, seeing in the EU Not only their economic partners, as was the case during the previous decades, but the nearest neighbors with a single mental, cultural and educational platform, is interested in stability on the European continent.


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