
About Democracy in Switzerland and Europe
On Sunday, November 29, 2009, during a vote on banning the construction of minarets in Switzerland, the electorate plebiscite to 57.5% this proposal of the Union of Democratic Center (called Swiss People's Party in the Swiss German ), the country's largest party in the parliamentary election with 29% of the vote. The Conservatives, on the edge of populism, has long been led by Christoph Blocher, now the second movement.
The result was a total surprise, denying all the opinion polls, and surprising even the proponents of this referendum. This was followed by an unequivocal condemnation by all the "opinion" European official, is to tell the politicians and the media of the vote. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader of the European Greens, has even demanded that the Swiss people vote again and this in disregard of basic principles of democracy. The ecological equivalent of his party in Switzerland has even pledged to make an appeal before the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that this was contrary to the famous convention which it is linked.





