Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 31.54% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (27.69%), the FDP (9.9%) and the Green Party (8.72%). In the federal election, a total of 204 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 46.7%.
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“In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.”
—Philippe Sollers (b. 1936)