Geneva Citizens' Movement

The Mouvement Citoyens Genevois ( Geneva German citizens' movement, Italian Movimento dei Cittadini Ginevrini ) is a right-wing populist protest party in the Swiss canton of Geneva. Under the name Mouvement Citoyens Romands the party intends to be active in the other cantons in French-speaking Switzerland.

History

The Mouvement Citoyens Genevois (MCG ) was founded in 2005 by former SVP member George Letellier and by former LPS politicians Éric Stauffer as parochial protest party. At the cantonal elections on 9 October 2009, the MCG reached 17 of the 100 seats of the Great Council of Geneva and rose to become the second largest party in the canton of Geneva.

After these successes the MCG announced to be active throughout the French-speaking Switzerland. Meanwhile, there are (very weak) sections in the cantons of Vaud and Neuchâtel. The Mouvement Citoyens Vaudois ran in the spring of 2011 in Lausanne and Yverdon- les- Bains, but reached in each case only 1% of the vote and no seats. Likewise, it was unsuccessful in the Vaud cantonal parliament elections of 11 March 2012. Neuchâtel The MCR- section reached in May 2012 in the elections to the Parliament of Neuchâtel city around 3% of the votes and was also without seats.

The Swiss Parliament elections of 2011, the MCG reached 9.8% in the Canton of Geneva. Thus, it remained well below its results in the cantonal elections. With Mauro Poggia an MCG member was elected to the Swiss National Council for the first time. In the canton of Vaud, where the Mouvement Citoyens Romands had also submitted a list, it was, however, only 0.5 % of the vote.

Political positions

The MCG sees himself on the political spectrum as neither left nor settled right. The party is also known by populist positions in the form of aggressive campaigns against commuters from neighboring France and immigrants. In social issues, the party takes unlike direct competitor SVP a left-wing positions.

Election results

National

The following table gives an overview of the election results of the MCG / MCR in the elections in the Swiss National Council:

The following table gives an overview of the election results of the MCG in the elections in the Grand Council ( the cantonal parliament of the Canton of Geneva). It should be noted, is that in those elections each voter Geneva has 100 votes. To make the numbers more meaningful, the number of votes divided by 100 in the table below therefore:

State Council of the Canton of Geneva

In the second round of elections to the Geneva State Council on 10 November 2013, the MCG drew for the first time in the cantonal government. Mauro Poggia reached 41'127 ​​votes to seventh place in the first round he had been lying in sixth place. He must according to cantonal constitution therefore would be the National Council mandate, for it puts MCG President Roger Golay after.