Mouvement citoyens genevois

The Mouvement citoyens genevois ( German  Geneva 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 tried to become active in other cantons in French-speaking Switzerland at the beginning of the 2010s , but was unsuccessful.

history

The Mouvement citoyens genevois (MCG) was founded on June 6, 2005 by the former SVP member Georges Letellier and the former LPS politician Éric Stauffer as a local patriotic protest party. In the cantonal elections on October 9, 2009, the MCG reached 17 of the 100 seats in the Grand Council of Geneva, making it the second largest party in the canton of Geneva.

After these successes, the MCG announced that it would become active in all of French-speaking Switzerland. Small sections were then founded in the cantons of Vaud and Neuchâtel . The Mouvement citoyens vaudois ran in Lausanne and Yverdon-les-Bains in spring 2011 , but only got 1% of the vote and no seats. It was just as unsuccessful in the Vaudois Grand Council elections on March 11, 2012. The Neuchâtel MCR section achieved around 3% of the votes in the elections to the Neuchâtel city parliament in May 2012 and also remained without seats. These sections no longer exist.

In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2011 , the MCG achieved 9.8% in the canton of Geneva. Although it remained well below its results in the cantonal elections, Mauro Poggia was the first to provide a national councilor . In the canton of Vaud, where the Mouvement citoyens romands had also submitted a list, it received only 0.5% of the votes.

In the Geneva cantonal elections 2013, the MCG achieved 19.23% of the votes cast and won 20 seats (+ 3); it remained the second strongest party after the FDP . With Mauro Poggia , the MCG has since provided a member of the seven-person Geneva executive. On the occasion of the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2015 , the MCG was able to defend its seat with losses. Despite the re-election of State Councilor Poggia, the cantonal elections of 2016 brought the MCG heavy losses, and in the National Council elections of 2019 it lost its only seat in the national parliament; the incumbent National Councilor Roger Golay was not re-elected.

Political positions

The MCG sees itself in the political spectrum as neither left nor right. The party is also known for its populist positions in the form of aggressive campaigns against cross-border workers from neighboring France and immigrants . In contrast to its direct competitor SVP, the party takes left-wing positions on social issues.

Election results

National Council

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

year	Switzerland			Canton of Geneva			Canton of Vaud
	be right	%	Seats	be right	%	Seats	be right	%	Seats
2007	2,655	0.12%	0	2,655	2.5%	0	no participation
2011	10,555	0.44%	1	9,690	9.8%	1	865	0.5%	0
2015	8,069	0.32%	1	8,069	7.9%	1	no participation
2019	5,388	0.22%	0	5,388	5.4%	0	no participation

Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva

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

year	Voters	%	Seats
2005	6,633	7.7%	9
2009	12,814	14.7%	17th
2013	17,776	19.2%	20th
2018	8,326	9.4%	11

State Council of the Canton of Geneva

In the second round of the elections for the Geneva State Council on November 10, 2013, the MCG entered the cantonal government for the first time. Mauro Poggia achieved seventh place with 41,127 votes and has been a member of the Geneva cantonal government ever since.

Web links

• MCG website (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/bd3ec062-96c2-11e0-bd41-a65d24664961%7C0  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , http://www.mcge.ch/index_mcr.html  
2. ↑ SVP-affiliated protest party wins in Geneva , Tages-Anzeiger online , October 11, 2009.
3. ↑ http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/bd3ec062-96c2-11e0-bd41-a65d24664961%7C0  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://www.elections.vd.ch/votelec/results.html?scrutin=CORP558620110313 , http://www.elections.vd.ch/votelec/results.html?scrutin=CORP593820110313
5. ↑ http://www.elections.vd.ch/votelec/results.html?scrutin=VDGC20120311-A502
6. ↑ http://www.elections.vd.ch/votelec/results.html?scrutin=VDGC20120311-A502
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ Election results on the website of the Canton of Geneva, accessed on January 23, 2015
10. ↑ National Council elections in Geneva, The Greens become the strongest party in Geneva , SRF , October 20, 2019, accessed on October 22, 2019.
11. ↑ http://www.ge.ch/elections/20051009/res_commune.asp?id=1&nolocal=0000
12. ↑ http://www.ge.ch/elections/20091011/res_commune.asp?nolocal=0000
13. ↑ http://www.ge.ch/elections/20131006/GC/canton/
14. ↑ https://www.ge.ch/elections/20180415/GC/
15. ↑ The Mouvement citoyens genevois enters the Geneva government . TagesWoche , November 10, 2013