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Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 19 October 2003. Although in Switzerland’s peculiar political system in which all four major parties form a coalition it is very difficult to achieve a change of government this election produced an upset with the strong showing of the right-wing anti-European Union and anti-immigration Swiss People’s Party. The left-wing parties the Social Democrats and the Greens also improved their positions.
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