Anti-immigration SVP wins Swiss election in swing to right


Swiss People's Party (SVP) President Toni Brunner talks to media outside the Swiss Parliament building in Bern, Switzerland October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich

ZURICH (Reuters) - The anti-immigration Swiss People's Party (SVP) won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday's national parliamentary election, projections showed, keeping pressure on Bern to introduce quotas on people moving from the European Union.

Success for the Swiss People's Party (SVP), coupled with gains made by the pro-business Liberal Party (FDP), led political commentators to talk of a "Rechtsrutsch" - a "slide to the right" - in Swiss politics.

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