The right wing Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) was the clear winner of Sunday's parliamentary elections after apparently boosting its share of the vote and gaining an estimated six more seats to give them a clear majority in the parliament's biggest chamber, according to DPA. But the landslide victory the right had hoped for with its hard hitting anti-immigration and anti-crime campaign which had brought it such unwelcome attention from abroad, had apparently failed to materialise. The Greens were expected to gain four more seats making them historically the strongest they had ever been, according to the latest projections. The People's Party could now hold as many as 61 of 200 seats in the House of Representatives putting them even further ahead of their nearest rivals the Socialists, who were set to lose around nine seats, leaving them with around 43 seats.
