Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 21.54% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (17.6%), the SP (17.17%) and the Green Party (12.72%). In the federal election, a total of 1,678 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.6%.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”
—Cecil Parkinson (b. 1932)
“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”
—Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)
“The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)