Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland

Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland

:"PEV redirects here. For the Portuguese ecologist party see: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes". For so-called "flying bishops", see Provincial episcopal visitor."The Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland ( _de. Evangelische Volkspartei der Schweiz, _fr. Parti Evangelique Suisse, _it. Partito Evangelico Svizzero, _rm. Partida evangelica da la Svizra) is a political party from Switzerland.

It is Protestant Christian party which is centre-left on social issues (in the European or Canadian sense of the word), centered in economic and financial issues and conservative on ethical issues. On the environment it claims "The EPP is dedicated to protecting the environment out of a sense of responsibility for the Creation." It should be noted that "Evangelical" translates "evangelisch", the Swiss term for Protestant, and has nothing to do with "Evangelicalism" as used in Anglo-Saxon Christianity.

It was founded in 1919 as the People's Party. It is an associated member of the European People's Party (EPP). Since April 2007 it is a full member of the European Christian Political Movement (ECPM).

In 2003, it held 3 mandates (out of 200) in the Swiss National Council (first chamber of the Swiss parliament). It was represented neither in the second chamber nor in the Swiss Federal Council (executive body).By 2005, it held 2.4% of the seats in the Swiss Cantonal parliaments, but was not represented in any of the 26 Cantonal governments (index "BADAC", weighted with the population and number of seats). At the last legislative elections, 22 October 2007, the party won 2.4 % of the popular vote and 2 out of 200 seats. [ [http://www.politik-stat.ch/nrw2007CH_de.html Nationalrat 2007 ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.evppev.ch/ Party website] - in German
** [http://www.evppev.ch/info/portrait_englisch.htm English version of introductory page]


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