Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 32.95% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (27.05%), the SP (19.81%) and the Green Party (10.29%). In the federal election, a total of 76 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 45.0%.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
“All is politics in this capital.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)