11.04.2006 13:44
Swiss elections
Switzerland did very well in the elections on the weekend. First of all they voted for the Centrosinistra. If you bear in mind that Switzerland has a large Italian community (There are more votes in absolute number from Switzerland than from Germany for instance) and that the italiani al estero seem to have a large impact, then you can see how much Switzerland influences international politics. ;-).
And even if there is not much reason for real Freude about the result of the Italian elections, there is at least some reason for Schadenfreude, since Berlusconis law which gives 55% of the seats in the camera to the winning coalition no matter how narrow their advantage is, seems to bite back at himself.
However, the real miracle happened elsewhere, in my very homegrounds. Would you ever have guessed that Bern becomes the 4th canton with a green/red majority in the government. Only after Neuchatel, Geneva and Basel City. Bern is a large canton, with a lot of rural and mountaneous areas. Not exactly the place where the left is strong traditionally.
