List of Political Parties in Switzerland - Minor Groups

Minor Groups

The following groups or parties are not represented at either the cantonal or national level (but may hold positions in municipal parliaments).

Abbr. Name W Leader Ideology Founded Popular vote
FPS/PSL Freedom Party

 Peter Commarmot Right-wing, National liberalism 1984 n/a
HPS/PHS Swiss Humanist Party

 Daniel Horowitz Humanist Movement 1984 n/a
KVP Catholic People's Party

 Lukas Brühwiler-Frésey Catholic social teaching 1994 n/a
PNOS Swiss Nationalist Party

 Dominic Lüthard Far-right, Ethnic nationalism 2000 0.05%
PPS Pirate Party

 Denis Simonet Freedom of Information, Information privacy 2009 0.48%
TPS/PSpA Tierpartei Schweiz Thomas Märki Animal rights 2010 0.15%
parteifrei.ch Lukas Harder Voluntary association of independent politicians formed for the 2011 elections; opposing party politics 2011 0.19%
MontagnaViva Germano Mattei Regionalism (Alpine Ticino) 2011 0.08%
Alpenparlament Alternative medicine 2011 0.06%
Konfessionslose.ch Separation of church and state 2011 0.05%
Volksaktion right-wing populism (Basel-Stadt) 2002 0.03%
La gauche combative Communism (Geneva) 2002 0.03%
Les Rauraques Separatism (Bernese Jura) 2011 0.03%

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