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Billionaire Blocher Gains Fans After Losing Swiss Cabinet Post

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December 20, 2007 11:52 am

Billionaire Christoph Blocher’s ouster from Switzerland’s governing coalition may leave his anti-immigration People’s Party stronger than ever as voters sign up in protest. “We lost count of membership applications ... Read more »

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Ousted Swiss minister threatens political revenge

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December 14, 2007 4:36 pm

Christoph Blocher, Switzerland’s leading rightwing politician, yesterday warned he would exact revenge for his ejection from the new government, as his Swiss People’s party, the SVP, called time on the ... Read more »

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Swiss ambush ousts Blocher

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December 13, 2007 4:36 pm

Christoph Blocher, Switzerland’s leading rightwing -politician, was ejected from government yesterday in a shock parliamentary vote that called into question the country’s decades-old system of consensus politics. The failure of ... Read more »

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Black sheep

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October 31, 2007 4:50 pm

For the millions of foreigners who visit each year, Switzerland is a country of soaring peaks, lush valleys and happy cows. The people are polite, the trains run on time ... Read more »

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Billionaire uses ancient martyr to spearhead his march into power

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October 22, 2007 5:47 pm

A self-made billionaire who compares himself to a legendary hero who was impaled while repelling unwanted invaders led his right-wing party to victory in Swiss elections last night after a ... Read more »

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Profile: Christoph Blocher

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October 15, 2007 8:24 pm

  The billionaire industrialist’s right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) is expected to win the most votes in elections on 21 October, rounding off a campaign that the United Nations described ... Read more »

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