Here’s how the BBC reported the story, in an article headlined “Swiss right in political avalanche”.
The far-right Swiss People's Party (SVP) has won the biggest share of the vote in parliamentary elections, throwing a decades-old system of consensus government into turmoil.Francois Brutsch at Un Swissroll thinks the imedia are making too much of it and provides some background to the Swiss system, as well as an alternative perspective.
The Swiss political system is so stable that even the smallest landslide can seem like an earthquake. So it is with the performance of Christoph Blocher’s party in this weekend’s elections: beforehand the party controlled less than a quarter of the seats in the Lower House, it now controls little more than a quarter of them, but when the media and the pundits have nothing else to chew on, they feed on themselves.Warning! My French is lousy, and that’s a quick and very loose translation from the original.
Even if your French is not great, it’s worth the read. The good news is, they write so well at Un Swissroll, you can run the post through a translation machine and still make sense of it when it comes out the other end.
Try doing that with one of de Villepin's speeches.
