Electoral workers count ballots during Swiss federal elections to elect a new parliament, in Bern, Switzerland on Sunday. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty ImagesThe right-wing Swiss People’s Party , Switzerland’s biggest political party, will increase its share of the vote to 29 per cent, 3.4 points higher than the last election in 2019, according to early projections by Swiss broadcaster SRF.
In contrast, the Greens were expected to see their share of the votes fall by 4.1 points to 9.1 per cent “The SVP has done well because it has raised fears about ‘wokeness’ and also focused on migration again,” said Herman “This is the shift to the right that we expected,” he said. “But the right wing won’t be able to dominate – there are balancing forces in parliament.”