As if tailored to suit its pastoral surroundings, the large poster plastered to a wall on the winding road into a tiny village 55 miles north of Geneva uses cartoon sheep to illustrate its message ...

But the Swiss case is different. The SVP is an established power with the largest number of seats in Parliament. Small wonder, then, that its black-sheep campaign has drawn condemnation from the ...

Nor is this the SVP's first brush with controversy. A previous ad campaign featured a black hand dipping into a box of Swiss passports (over 20 percent of the population is foreign born), and a ...

The aggressive campaign waged by the Swiss People's Party was seen by many as being racist. An SVP compter game. The party led by Christoph Blocher, ousted from the cabinet on Wednesday ...

When the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) came to power in 2007, it used a poster showing a white sheep kicking black sheep off the country's flag. This was no reference to black sheep as ...

Sadly this rhetoric becomes a simple game on the party's Web site where one can play the goat, the emblem of the SVP/UDC, and kick the maximum number of black sheep out of the borders to win.