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Article: Official results emphasize growth of nationalist Swiss People's Party
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- October 20, 2003
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BALZ BRUPPACHER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
10-20-2003
Dateline: BERN, Switzerland
Official results released by the Swiss government Monday underscored the meteoric rise of the nationalist Swiss People's Party from the smallest member of the governing coalition to the largest in eight years.
The People's Party, whose isolationist positions in recent years included opposition to refugees, the United Nations and European Union, swept to victory Sunday in national elections.
The party received 26.6 percent of the vote, said the Federal Office for Statistics. That was somewhat lower than projections Sunday by state-owned Swiss television, but well ahead of the Social Democrats' 23.3 ...