The nationalist far right party Rally Patriotic Rally (RRP) presents two candidates for the prefectural elections in the canton of Bern on May 18. Members of the same party exchanged misogynous, racist and anti -Semitic messages, revealed the mail.
The Patriotic French Rally, which was born a year and a half ago, is controversial. The content of the WhatsApp discussions of certain members is unequivocal. Among other things are women – journalists and politicians – and traveling people.
“Sow”, “P … of Frouze”, “Grognasse”, “Parasites”, “Cafards”: the messages revealed by Mail include other anti -Semitic and racist insults, which RTS has chosen not to disseminate. With a hundred members, the party has since dissolved the WhatsApp group.
“Of course there is an image damage, but these slippages are due to young people who do not master their communication. Errors can happen. We ask the population not to take force them too much,” said Stepan Syshchikov, Vice-President of the RRP. Following these slippages, the anti-fascist movement requires on its site the dissolution of the party by Monday afternoon, failing which it will publish discussions, names and telephone numbers of the people involved in the group.
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For work camps
The RRP program includes proposals contrary to human rights, such as “change prisons to work camps” or “do not recognize transsexuality”. The party also proposes to “heavily condemn insulting acts towards the nation” or “authorizes only the elite of immigration” of the countries of the South.
-The RRP assumes. “We are part of a patriotic movement, therefore much more right than the UDC. We want a much more increased border control, zero immigration. We must pass the unemployed before taking cross -border workers,” explains Bruno Dupont, RRP candidate for the prefecture of the Bernese Jura.
Deleterious climate
In Bienne as in the Bernese Jura, it is estimated that the recent drifts of the party affect democracy. “In 30 years of politics, it is unheard of. It is incredible what we can write, what we can say about candidates, women. It’s extreme. I can’t stand,” explains Pierre-Yves Grivel, campaign manager of the outgoing PLR of Bienne.
“When you do politics in Switzerland, you need a minimum of respect for each other. A party whose members have such words, even on WhatsApp, is inadmissible,” adds Virginie Heyer, campaign chief of the outgoing prefect of the Bernese Jura.
The elections to the prefectures of Bienne and the Bernese Jura on May 18 will take place in this deleterious climate. Contacted, the Confederation’s intelligence service refuses to express themselves on this particular case.
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