The Swiss Nationalist Party (german: Partei National Orientierter Schweizer, lit=Party of Nationally Oriented Swiss, abbreviated to PNOS; french: Parti nationaliste suisse, abbreviated to PNS; it, Partito nazionalista svizzero) was a

far-right Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of being ...

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'' völkisch'' political party in Switzerland founded in 2000. It was classified as "

extremist Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views". The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense to refer to an ideology that is considered (by the speaker or by some implied shar ...

" by the Swiss federal police in 2001.Domestic Security Report of Switzerland by the Federal Office of Police, 2008
/ref> The party's course was initially imitating that of the 1930s National Front with a clearly

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ideology (dubbed " eidgenössisch-sozialistisch" by the PNOS) but has since been "modernized" in accordance with the vocabulary of Germany's ''

Neue Rechte Neue Rechte (''New Right'') is the designation for a right-wing political movement in Germany. It was founded as an opposition to the New Left generation of the 1960s. Its intellectually oriented proponents distance themselves from Old Right Na ...

''. The party was not represented in any cantonal parliament. Its activities were mostly confined to the

Swiss German Swiss German (Standard German: , gsw, Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no defined orthography for any of them, many different spelling ...

-speaking parts of the

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. It had one representative in the municipal parliament of

Langenthal Langenthal is a town and a municipality in the district of Oberaargau in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipality of Untersteckholz merged into the Langenthal. On 1 January 2021 the former municipality of Obersteckhol ...

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(population 14,300), elected in 2004. In 2005, another member was elected to the municipal executive council of

Günsberg Günsberg is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Günsberg is first mentioned in 1307 as ''Gunsperch''. Geography Günsberg has an area, , of . Of this area, or 46.9% is used for agric ...

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(population 1,100). They participated in the federal elections of 2011 in the

, gathering 0.3% of the popular vote (1,066 votes), less than a tenth of the votes required to win a seat in parliament. They also participated in

Vaud Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...

, gathering a total of 132 votes (less than the 0.2% of the votes required to win a seat).

References

External links

Party website

Party website for the French-speaking part of Switzerland
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