Swiss Green Party profits from environment fears
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Climate change has become Swiss voters’ biggest concern, according to a survey released two months before parliamentary elections.
The Green Party, currently the fifth-largest in Switzerland, looks set to capitalise on this to make gains at the polls in October.
The fifth election barometer carried out by the gfs.institute on behalf of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation – swissinfo’s parent company – shows that if votes were cast now, the Greens would gain 10.3 per cent.
This is a slight drop compared with the previous survey in June (10.9 per cent), but still 2.9 per cent more than in the last elections in 2003. This is a far higher increase than for any other political party over the same period.
