Christoph Blocher
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Christoph Wolfram Blocher is a Swiss industrialist and politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2004 to 2007. A member of the Swiss People's Party, he headed the Federal Dep
Official portrait, 2011
Official Swiss Federal Council photo for 2007. Blocher is the second person from the left.
Civil unrest in Lausanne in the wake of anti-Blocher protests of 18 September 2007
Demonstration in Lausanne on 8 December to call for Christoph Blocher to be ousted from the Federal Council in the upcoming elections. Blocher was replaced by Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf four days later.
Jörg Haider
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Jörg Haider was an Austrian politician. He was Governor of Carinthia on two occasions, the long-time leader of the Freedom Party of Austria and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria
Christoph Blocher
…in the party was a major factor in voter turnout among SVP voters. Damir Skenderovic, professor at the University of Fribourg has compared Blocher to Jörg Haider of the Freedom Party of Austria and Alliance for the Future of Austria, to Carl I. Hagen of the Norwegian Progress Party, and to Umberto Bossi of the…
Haider in 2007
Jörg Haider wearing lederhosen at a meeting of his party BZÖ (2006)