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Shane wilkinson
On Election Sunday, the SVP experienced its biggest fiasco since Christoph Blocher was ousted from the Federal Council in 2007: only 38 percent approved the limitation initiative, and that with its core issue, immigration!
The Popular Party could have easily been saved from such a defeat if it had learned from the mistakes of the past: After 52.3 percent success of its deportation initiative, it believed that it could now make far-reaching demands, and the enforcement initiative it failed miserably (41.1 percent).
Even then, the electorate would have been foreseeable to be open to some SVP concerns, but in no way would they appreciate coercion.
The situation on Sunday was similar: voters surprisingly accepted the mass immigration initiative of 2014. The result (50.3 percent), however, was very weak. Anyone with a sense of what is feasible should have realized that majorities cannot be obtained for an even more drastic cause.
Added to this political error was the SVP’s bad luck: immigration fell. In Corona times, people have other concerns anyway. And in the midst of the crisis, there is probably no desire to experiment with our most important trading partner, the European Union.
In some typically Swiss way – if you want too much, you get one on the roof.
Proponents of an EU framework agreement should also learn this lesson, and not fall into euphoria: Anyone who considers that no to the limitation initiative is a yes to the framework agreement is making the same mistake as the senior vice president.
The fight for our relationship with Europe begins anew.
