“the end of the new middle.” So the headline was four years ago after the Zurich-based elections. BDP and GLP, the two most recent rung of the Swiss party landscape, rails in the election year of 2015, to burn up after a short, meteoric rise again.
Four years later, seems to burn up the BDP, while the green liberals with a Plus of 5.3 percentage points in the case of the Zurich-based elections to experience more than just a Comeback. The elections in the largest Canton do not provide very reliable predictions for the elections this autumn. Of the always all-powerful becoming media in Zurich metropolis however, not infrequently, political Trends, and pulses with a national impact: Duttweiler founded here not only the Migros, but also the LdU. Zurich free sense initiated once the transition to “more freedom, less government”, and Blochers “Zurich” SVP was within a few years for the SVP in General.
Also, the green liberals are a Swiss invention, and they are just about to invent at least a little bit. The GLP-success is more than a climate-Hype, because what is striking is that the party occupied ever more vehement, the fourth Pole in the up to now, three-pole political landscape of Switzerland. In addition to the existing left (SP, GP), liberals (FDP) conservatives (SVP) Pole of the green liberals are trying to position as a separate progressive Pol.
It is one Pole, the other parties in the past years almost completely orphaned. The left liberal in the classical sense, there is hardly any. The CVP has left the Leuthard recorded liberal-social way for a long time and the SP has positioned itself deliberately in trade unions and the left. It has so much space in the spectrum between red-green, CVP and FDP.
Pragmatic Serenity
has Only tried the unfortunate BDP in the last few years under Martin Landolt, with a clear progressive direction. Landolt misunderstood that its in a rural conservative area anchored party is not just across the political spectrum relocation. The DNA of the origin of party may not be easily re-programmed.
Martin Bäumles GLP was a gap product. Like the other Martin, he distanced his party from the old political home, the Green,. With the exception of the environmental issue, he positioned it against the left. Both the BDP as in the case of GLP, the demarcation of the old home was initially quite necessary to win as a fission product an identity of its own.
unlike Landolt Bäumle, however, the significance of the DNA of the origin party. He was a generation change, and the initial fear of contact in the direction of the left have given way to a pragmatic Composure. With Kathrin Bertschy social issues and equality found a Central place in the party, with Tiana Angelina Moser, a progressive policy on Europe.
Liberal policy with heart
The real sticking point for the future of the party, however, will be whether you find also in the social policy their way. The number of the Select, the world thinks extremely environmentally and in all other matters citizens pronounced, is manageable. In particular, the Zurich Branch of the party has, in the past, part of its new and also its potential with social policy decisions, such as in the case of social assistance, from time to time in front of the head, joined in.
From the green liberals expect a left-wing social policies, is wrong. From your political understanding can be, and you may not participate in a watering cans-SME policy. Beyond the climate wave as a separate fourth Pole in the political landscape, it will establish itself only if it is able to make a liberal social policy is heartless. In particular, in dealing with the least-Privileged in the society. Not only the hip, but this development could well be part of the current generation change.
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Created: 25.03.2019, 18:37 PM
