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Geneva communal elections keep Left firmly in power

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:21:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Forty-four of Canton Geneva’s 45 communes Sunday 17 April elected their town managers, leaving the Left firmly in power, in the city of Geneva but also in a majority of its neighbouring communes. The city of Geneva elected four Socialists to its Executif: Sami Kanaan, noted for his closeness to outgoing [...]

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Swiss party just can’t get its poster right

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:39:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Geneva political party MCG just cannot get its poster right for the 28 November popular referendum vote on shipping out foreigners who commit serious crimes. The Tribune de Geneve announced Tuesday 2 November it is billing the party for copyright infringement for using a photo from the newspaper on a [...]

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Swiss will not allow controversial Qaddafi poster

Laila Rodriguez — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:47:28 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Mouvement des Citoyens Genevois, MCG, a populist right-wing political party says they will appeal a decision that forbids them from displaying a controversial poster featuring Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffi. Francois Longchamp, president of the Geneva executive council, told the Tribune de Geneve, that the canton is very flexible when it [...]

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Canton Geneva’s executive council shifts right

Sean Ecker — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:05:22 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 15:40 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Cantonal elections in Geneva for the executive council, the Conseil d’état, confirmed a rightward shift in the political mood, Sunday 15 November. The centre-right alliance won four of the seven seats, while the centre-left won three. Two women are on the council, and extremists on either side of the [...]

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“Frontaliers” a boon to Geneva’s economy, numbers show

Sean Ecker — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:27:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Frontaliers (cross-border workers) are said by some to be at the root of many of Geneva’s social problems, from traffic to crime to unemployment. These concerns among Geneva’s voters were reflected in last weekend’s elections to the cantonal parliament, or Grand Conseil, which gave the right-wing Mouvement des Cityoyens Genevois (MCG) [...]

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Eric Stauffer wants to rid Geneva of beggars if elected to cantonal government

Sean Ecker — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:53:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Eric Stauffer says he will rid the streets of Geneva of beggars within 45 days of being elected to the cantonal government, if he is elected 15 November. The leader of the Mouvement des Citoyens Genevois (MCG) party which was the undeniable winner of Sunday’s 11 October elections to the cantonal [...]

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