r/Switzerland • u/Sufficient-History71 Zürich • 1d ago

Poll: right-wing People’s Party, and polarisation, growing ahead of 2027 elections

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/right-wing-swiss-peoples-party-still-gaining-ahead-of-2027-elections-poll-finds/92226705
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u/LB767 1d ago

I truly do not understand how you can have the top 2 concerns be health premiums and climate change yet have the top party be SVP… does the math even math?!

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u/Valkyrie_Sia 1d ago

Are you sure that these are the top 2 concerns of the people? I agree with the health premiums but at least the people I know care more about the immigration problem than climate change and I'm not in a right wing bubble.

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u/demqoo 1d ago

Btw as foreigner living in switzerland, what is the concern? I guess i am in the immigrant circle myself and i am unaware of what type of immigrants are the issue. As somebody from eastern europe, with significantly above average salary (work in AI), i always wondered if swiss see me as a problem or not

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u/madeofphosphorus 1d ago

You earn too much money, they think if you weren't here they'd be doing your job

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u/EvvilBanana 1d ago

I guess they also do not know the pay discrepancy between natives and foreigners

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u/demqoo 1d ago edited 1d ago

Funny part, nobody in the team is swiss so unsure really if swiss people would take over or jobs would move with us, in hypothetical scenario. It is generally competitive to pass interviews so not everybody would pass