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Post by seanf on Oct 12, 2018 15:53:17 GMT
I haven't been to Ticino for 13 years, but I'm amazed it could ever have had a reputation for poverty. Oh yes, there even existed jokes on Ticini working in restCH (by far not as many as for Valais, though) and relatives of mine in GR employed some of them. I had to hear from a frequent guest in TI, that their tourism had its best days in the Adenauer-era. Some valleys (in the N&NE) get depopulated, according to the NZZ. Similar to wealthy Geneva and Vaud its/his economical politics has been quite left: Vivid TradeUnions (i.e. strikes being not uncommon), LegaT. partly left-populists (like MCG), FDP rather etatists. I've been to Locarno/Stresa/Ascona three times, in 1981, 1984, and 2005, and always thought the area was very prosperous, but perhaps appearances were deceptive. |
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Post by westmercian on Oct 19, 2018 17:56:06 GMT
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Post by Georg Ebner on Nov 25, 2018 17:07:34 GMT
Today's referendum of SVP&allies (LegaTicino, M.C.Genevois) to put the constitution above international law ended unsurprisingly with only 1/3 YES.
Because of the hysterical campaign of the internationalists a better result was not totally impossible, but finally BigBusiness lobbied also too strongly against the proposal and as a result only few voters of FDP&CVP switched to YES.
Lega's Ticino and SVP's fortress Schwyz were most inclined to defend Swiss independence (47% YES).
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Post by Georg Ebner on Nov 25, 2018 19:24:53 GMT
A far less decisive referendum took place, too (and an unimportant third one).
It was on detectives being hired by InsuranceAgencies in order to detect frauds.
Here the left was quite isolated (35%, only Geneva and Jura on their side, the rest of French-CH and the more urban cantons in German-CH [Basel, Bern, Zurich] with strong minorities - no surprises).
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Post by westmercian on Nov 26, 2018 20:48:47 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 27, 2018 0:47:05 GMT
The broad reason is that the Ticinesi are considered even in Switzerland to be deeply conservative.
More specifically, the roots lie in Napoleon and the Risorgimento. The Ticinesi (as now are) fought to maintain their restricted self-rule. Then they fought to maintain their new status as their own canton- they had been a condominium of the cantons to the north, then two separate cantons.
At this point, things get weird. They showed no interest in the Risorgimento, but were friendly towards it. The reasons are two-fold. Firstly, they did not trust the House of Savoy to uphold their liberties, quite rightly- the federalism debate in Italy didn't last long. Secondly, they tended to mistrust the liberal and anti-clerical tendencies of the new Italian state (liberal as understood then). Increasingly, they became more aggressively Swiss as they identified more closely with the cantonal concept, and as a fightback against competing claims. A not dissimilar aggressive stance ultimately also led to Rumantsch being declared a national language, as Italy tried to claim large parts of Graubünden on the spurious and frankly ludicrous idea that Rumantsch was an Italian dialect.
If you look at the constitution of the canton, it says that its "historic mission" is to "interpret Italian culture in a Helvetic context".
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Post by Georg Ebner on Nov 27, 2018 1:26:17 GMT
Fact is, that Italian-CH was 10% to the right of German-CH and 20% compared to their French "brothers". With my basic Italian i am no expert for TI-media, i am sorry, but i read here and there, that they had since the late XIXth a "radical" (=liberal) and a clerical daily, added later by a small PS-one. The PDC-daily, which died recently, had been led in the 1990ies by Lombardi, PDC's ParliamentaryLeader in Bern, so it was certainly hostile towards the new-comers of LegaT. and SVP (surely less so to conservative policies). The liberal one could be - perhaps - quite right (like FDP's "NeueZürcherZeitung" or "St.GallerTagBlatt"). The tabloid "20 Minuti" will (like Tamedia's media in general) be not friendly to the right, also not the public TeleVision&Radio-channels. Yet, very important for LT's rise has been their "Il Mattino del Domenica", an infamous weekly, which is nowadays only online available (making it difficult to quantify [let alone qualify] its influence). |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Nov 28, 2018 0:01:00 GMT
After the terrible (albeit not surprising) defeat in the referendum on EU-law vs. CH-constitution, SVP's Blocher said, what has been my suspicion for some time, too: After none of SVP's former electoral successes was really adopted by the InterNationalists in government&parliament, their opponents have gone into an InnerEmigration. (According to Blocher the TurnOut in rural areas has fallen strongly.)
Interesting also for Brexit.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jan 10, 2019 13:50:49 GMT
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jan 29, 2019 15:13:22 GMT
Canton Zurich is going to elect parliament and government. Here an OverView of the latter's composition:  Normally the left parties (i.e. GPS) should win back a minister, but GPS and the far-left AL haven't endorsed 1 of 2 SPS-incumbents, making it far harder for them. As written earlier, the ZH-parliament's elections in spring have anticipated the trends of the federal elections in autumn very well in the recent past. |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jan 29, 2019 23:29:56 GMT
Canton Zurich is going to elect parliament and government. Here an OverView of the latter's composition: This table has (at least) 1 mistake: The GREENS participated in the cantonal government 1995-2005 (Verena Diener, nowadays a member of the GreenLiberals) and 2011-2015. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 30, 2019 0:23:59 GMT
How to spot if a woman is from Zurich- she'll be called Verena or Regula.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jan 31, 2019 12:42:18 GMT
ZurichCity had together with WinterthurCity once a majority of seats in the cantonal parliament, but has lost many to the exploding SubUrbs:  As the left performed 2018 very well in smaller towns (like Uster), some noise is made, that these suburban subcentres are moving to the left like the cities. Shifts in referenda:  |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jan 31, 2019 12:46:32 GMT
A poll, how the minister-candidates would perform:  Supporters of FDP (and CVP) back the prominent&controversial SVP-woman quite strongly:  ...while - contrary to normal elections - many SVP-voters aren't impressed by the FDP-man:   |
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Post by finsobruce on Jan 31, 2019 12:53:23 GMT
A poll, how the minister-candidates would perform: Mr Angst must be worried. |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jan 31, 2019 12:53:50 GMT
Issues for urban Zuricher:  HealthInsurances, traffic(jam), PopulationGrowth, Environment, flats, foreigners, security/crime |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jan 31, 2019 12:59:39 GMT
The left parties are expecting gains (no wonder after the other recent cantonal elections), also because a referendum on water (with the left decrying the danger of privatisation) will take place, too:  And another one on dogs:  |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jan 31, 2019 13:05:48 GMT
Apropos referendum: The GREENS-youth will bring up one against the OverFlow of the towns into the CountrySide (a huge problem in Swiss MittelLand), with some sublime support from conservative&rural SVP-clients. Support has been declining from first to third wave of polling, though:  |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 31, 2019 16:28:57 GMT
A poll, how the minister-candidates would perform: Mr Angst must be worried. Herr Neukom must be a carpetbagger. |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jan 31, 2019 20:56:45 GMT
Mr Angst must be worried. Herr Neukom must be a carpetbagger. And Mr.Neukom(m) is indeed a NewComer. (With a well-known politician the GREENS would have regained a minister, probably.) |
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