Switzerland looked set to shift to the right in national elections on Sunday, as concerns about immigration trumped fears about climate change and melting glaciers...

They're obsessed with "the right," but cheer on shifts to the left. Also, I wonder why concerns about immigration would be more impactful than concerns about melting glaciers. Weird!

The party campaigned on a platform of preventing the country's population - currently at 8.7 million people - exceeding 10 million.

How extreme, we won't let in more immigrants than 15% of the current population.

Rising health costs also looked set to benefit the left-wing Social Democrats (SP). Switzerland's second-biggest party was poised to increase its share by 0.7 percentage points of the vote to 17.4%, increasing its representation by one to 40 seats.

More proof that people are retarded. Although I think this is also media bias/spin. They're not gaining much, and who can say what specific issues led to that.

In contrast, the Greens were expected to see their share of the votes fall by 4 percentage points to 9%, and lose six seats.

"The result means it will be more difficult for progressive issues or issues like the environment and sustainability," said Cloe Jans from pollsters GFS Bern. "Politicians will feel less pressure from outside to push this agenda in the next four years after this result."

Mask off? Politicians should only feel pressure from the people, not "outside."

"The progressive zeitgeist of the four years ago has disappeared. After four years of crises, with coronavirus and Ukraine, people are more conservative than they were in 2019," said Michael Hermann, a political analyst at pollsters Sotomo.

Big if true although, again, there's plenty of editorializing going on here.