Swiss Elections indicatates polarization

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung has a story on the elections. The Swiss People’s Party (SVP) is now the leading party, jumping ahead of the Social Democrats. The main losers seem to have been the center right parties, the Christian Democrats and the Radicals. Another big winner was the Green Party. Does this result indicate a more bitter factionalization in Swiss politics, or strategic blundering by the cenetr-right. The Christian Democrats tries to possition itself as less Catholic. The Radicals, a pro-business party, advocated raising the retirement age all the while its party leadership had to re-shuffle because of a business scandal. Utimatly this question will only be answered by the next elections to see whether the center can recapture its possition against the poles.