I'm a victim of the policy on Europe

The news came at an inopportune time for Filippo Lombardi . "A frontier-record in Ticino" was the title of the media two weeks ago, just before the second round of elections for the Council of States elections on Sunday. 67'900 commuters in the third quarter, 8 percent more than in the previous year, more than ever before. They occupy three-quarters of the new jobs created in the Canton. The 63-year-old CVP-politician is convinced that the frontier theme is the cost after 20 years as a councillor re-election. "I'm a victim of the European policy," says Lombardi, the day after he had to leave because of 45 votes difference, the SP candidate Marina Carobbio go first. "The left and the right have with the European elections, question of combat and the protection of Wages against the framework agreement and the bilateral path on a mood."

While the Europa theme for the victory of Carobbio and Marco Chiesa, ranging from the SVP tried and tested, crashed it Lombardi and Giovanni Merlini of the FDP in a Dilemma. Carobbio was talking a lot about the protection of Wages, Chiesa called for the termination of the free movement of persons. "The most important political issue in the second ballot, the persons freedom of movement was," says Chiesa. "Lombardi has voted in favour of the cohesion of a billion, and have criticised the people." Lombardi, who also supports the framework agreement, with clarifications, was able to score so not. "This Situation was difficult for me because I vouched for a very cautious and sensible policy on Europe, but by the Lega and the SVP as a Euro turbo will known," says Lombardi.

Pelli: "A choice of adrenaline"

The reputation of the Euro turbos is a political death sentence in a Canton, of maintains voices in the European policy against Bern. Or in other words: against the policy of the Swiss Federal Council and Minister Ignazio Cassis on the outside. "The results from Sunday show that in the case of a dismissal of Ignazio Cassis is no wave of protest across the Ticino waves would: More than half of the Ticino with his policy on Europe, obviously not at all agree with what I Lombardi says parts of it",. "I did it more often, to awaken in Bern to understand the peculiarities of local politicians as Vice versa," he says.

Chiesa takes the Cassis half-hearted in the protection of the "Cassis makes no Ticino policy, he makes the policy of the Federal Council. The election on Sunday shows that this policy is not appreciated in Ticino."

"The Lega is now even more in trouble, the SVP, however, is on the upswing."Filippo Lombardi

a break in the Ticino, just evidenced by the historical election on Sunday. the CVP and the FDP have lost their traditional Council of States seats, first of all, Tessinerin moves into the Stöckli, for the first time in Ticino SP-representation, for the first time, a Council of States of the SVP, of all things, from the Lega-Canton. "The Lega is now even more in trouble, the SVP, however, is on the upswing," says Lombardi.

Totsagen the former FDP President Fulvio Pelli doesn't want the Lega, however. He speaks of a "choice of adrenaline": "The middle-candidates were on defense, the Polparteien, however, the adrenaline flowed: they felt that a victory is possible, and have worked hard." The reasons for the success: The Left United for once, the Ticino freed themselves from their party loyalty, the SVP-candidate scored in the whole of the bourgeois camp.

"A political earthquake"

For the Ticinese political scientists, Nenad Stojanovic, the Council of States election a "political earthquake is coming". Because the CVP and the FDP were almost always the Deputation of the Canton. Decisive for the Failure of Lombardi's and Merlinis was that the strategic choice-haven't worn Alliance of CVP and FDP. "The two parties are historical enemies, and suddenly, the two supported each other," says Stojanovic. Their voters have moved to support the candidate of the other party.

Also, Chiesa said: "a Lot of people have not understood the Alliance between the FDP and CVP, because these parties are traditionally at odds." The candidates of the CVP and the FDP did not occur even as a middle-class Duo, says Stojanovic: "in fact, everyone looked out only for themselves." A visible sign of this was that neither Lombardi nor Merlini for the Alliance partners made a recommendation.

"a Lot of people, the Alliance between the FDP and CVP have not understood, because these parties are traditionally at odds." Nenad Stojanovic, a political scientist

Had loaded the trailer from the CVP and the FDP has consistently Lombardi and Merlini would have been chosen the two, is Stojanovic is convinced. The Erosion of party loyalty was mainly due to the good result Chiesas. In Lugano this has received almost half of the votes, although the city was once one of the FDP in the high castle. Has helped Chiesa, that he politicized the content on the line of the SVP Switzerland, but in the tone of a moderate appearance, and for the FDP in the trailer was selectable. The accusation Merlinis, Chiesa was an "emissary of the family of Blocher", hurting the SVP candidate hardly.

Marina Carobbio back your choice on the closed support of the Left, including the Greens. In addition, many would want to finally send a woman to the Council of States, which is why they have also received votes from outside of the left side of the spectrum. In fact, the problems were on the Ticino labour market, but the dominant issue. This has helped both you and Chiesa, although they represented conflicting recipes says Carobbio.

For Stojanovic the removal of Lombardi's was not a surprise. Lombardi's influence was in Ticino, the rich but not particularly popular politician. So Lombardi had been in the Senate, never in the first ballot chosen. Each time, he was able to defend in the second ballot, only the middle against the left or right. This time, however, the Ticinese have set a sign.

Created: 18.11.2019, 22:22 PM