Democratic Union of the center

Political positioning

The UDC rather has a wing Centriste, of which the Federal adviser Samuel Schmid forms part, and a right wing with , represented at the Federal council by Christoph Blocher. The center wing, so called “country wing”, is in lose speed. The line wing, so called “wing inhabitant of Zurich” because Christoph Blocher and Ueli Maurer form part and come from it from Zurich, captures most of the political debate and tends to supplant the other wing. The UDC is sometimes described as party of Extrême right-hand side, primarily in French-speaking Switzerland and abroad, by the parties and the Presse of Gauche, the Syndicat S, associations antiracists.

Among the topics often proposed by the UDC, one finds the Immigration, the national Indépendance and the reduction of the weight of the State.

Concerning immigration, the UDC fights particularly to harden the conditions of obtaining the Political asylum: more effective repression, limitation of the social securities, widening of the administrative measures, etc Its positions are worth to him frequent charges of Xénophobie In a general way, the UDC as Christoph Blocher was always opposed to article 261 (a) of the Swiss Penal code which punishes racial discrimination like the negation of the crime of Génocide, just as with any restriction of the Freedom of expression.

Concerning national independence, the UDC fights against the bringings together with international organizations, in particular the European Union. She also fights to preserve military neutrality, in particular against Swiss soldier sending abroad. The UDC fought successfully against the accession of Switzerland to the European Economic space, refused by referendum the December 6th 1992. That gave him an important place in the national political debate for the questions of international agreements. In 2002, its fight against the accession of Switzerland to the United Nations failed. In the French media, this isolationist position is often pejoratively called .

Concerning the management of the State, the UDC is particularly opposed to the policies inspiration Socialiste. She intends to break the “mentality of supervision” which makes the citizens “dependant”. She is opposed to the rises taxes and the new taxes.

With the political weight loss of the parties of the center to the profit of the UDC and Swiss Socialist party, the commentators policy often evoke the “reinforcement of the extremes”. The UDC takes part since decades in the exercise of the capacity and it has a program of traditional inspiration, not revolutionary. It is allied traditional preserving formations on the local electoral rolls.

At the federal elections of the October 19th 2003, the UDC arrived at the head with 26,7% of the votes and obtained 55 seats with the National council (+11) out of 200 and eight with the Conseil of the States. The power struggle between the left and the right-hand side remaining identical to that of 1999, it is the nature of the block of right-hand side which evolved/moved with 40% of elected officials UDC. With these results, the UDC became the first political party in Suisse and its leader Christoph Blocher could aspire to a second station at the Federal council with the detriment of the centrist party, the PDC.

Summary of the political lines

In 2006, the guiding lines of the UDC are the following ones: ^{necessary ref.}

conservation of neutrality

not of accession and collaboration of Switzerland with NATO
not of accession of Switzerland in the European Union
against a collaboration pronounced with UNO

conservation of the Swiss army in its traditional form (armed with militia)

not of mission abroad (maintenance of peace, with the Kosovo for example)

for the conservation of the Direct democracy
against a policy of asylum badly controlled
against an automatic naturalization from abroad of the 3rd generation

against the abuses as regards asylum

for an increased internal security (police force)
against badly targeted subsidies
for a fall of the taxes and national expenditure
for an improvement of the highway network in the country
against the abandonment of individual transport to the profit of public transport
for the traditional role of the woman in the company (mother)

against subsidies poured with the families for the expenses of cribs

against the Narcotic S (against the legalization of the Cannabis)
against criticisms with regard to the Swiss policy during the Second world war
against the equal treatment of the tests recorded by reports/ratios with the married couples as regards death duty and donations (voting of May 20th, 2007 in the Canton of Geneva)

History

The UDC was born the September 22nd 1971 starting from fusion from the Party from the peasants, craftsmen and middle-class man (PAB) (founded with Zurich in 1917 under the name of Parti of the peasants, famous in 1937 at the time of the constitution of a national party starting from the sections of Zurich and Bern) and of two democratic parties of German-speaking Switzerland (Glaris, Grisons); because of this filiation, the UDC was a long time, and, is still sometimes called “agrarian party ”. In French-speaking Switzerland, the party was called Parti of the peasants, craftsmen and independent (FEEDS).

The UDC which takes part in the government since 1929, initially under the name of PAB, was reinforced at the beginning of the Années 1990 under the impulse of Christoph Blocher which affirms to want to make UDC a reactive force. Its victory in 1992 against the accession of Switzerland to the European Economic space, a referendum with exceptionally high rate of participation, marked the Swiss policy.

The UDC develops with the detriment of the right parties like the radical-democratic Parti (PRD), the oldest political training of modern Switzerland, and the Parti Christian-Democrat (PDC). The UDC obtained 11,1% in 1991, 15% in 1995 and 22,5% in 1999. According to an institutional survey, practiced near 20.000 young people and made public in August 2003 under the title of elvetica Insulated, the voters of the UDC find themselves especially at the people without professional training and having low returned.

Until the beginning of the Years 2000, the UDC developed almost only in the Germanic cantons. The existing country wing in the French cantons remained stable. The UDC strongly progressed in Romandie at the time of the national elections of 2003.

The December 10th, 2003, its leader Christoph Blocher was elected in the place of Ruth Metzler-Arnold of PDC, and thus sits at the Federal council (Swiss government) since the 1 {{er}} January 2004 where it occupies the post of head of the federal Department of Justice and Police. The UDC thus has today two seats at the federal government with that of Samuel Schmid.

With the federal elections of October 2007, the UDC gains 7 seats at the National council (where it then holds 62 seats out of 200), with 29% of the voices. It however loses of them one with the Council of the States. During this election, Ueli Maurer, then president of the party, are not elected vis-a-vis Verena Diener.

Some personalities of the UDC

Christoph Blocher, federal adviser
Samuel Schmid, federal adviser
Ueli Maurer, national adviser, national president of the UDC
Oskar Freysinger, national adviser
Yvan Perrin, national adviser
Jean-Claude Mermoud, adviser of State of the canton of Vaud

See too

Minaret of the discord

References

External bonds

Official site in French
Affiche of the Young UDC of Were worth French against facilitated naturalizations

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