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Dear Alastair, dear Rory
In your (as always great) latest podcast you ask if any country other than the Czech Republic has a motorist party. Unfortunately, Switzerland has or rather had. From 1984 onwards, we had the Auto-Partei (car party), a far right group who was for cars and against foreigners. Their then leader Michael Dreher once infamously suggested to put all leftist politicians against a wall and go over them with a flame thrower. This was more or less the tone. In 1994 the party changed it’s name to Freiheitspartei (freedom party), but at that time they were already in decline. They had once eight members of parliament and quite some in local and cantonal parliaments, but nowadays they do not have anyone in public office as far as I know. Their voters, membership and political issues have been taken over by the Swiss People Party SVP.
Speaking of which, Christoph Blocher, their leader is probably the prototype for the right wing populist billionaire politician in Europe, possibly pre-dating Silvio Berlusconi.
Greetings from Zurich
Wolf Stettler
thanks so much for your info on that. really interesting