Rassemblement jurassia

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The Rassemblement jurassien is a political group in Switzerland that campaigned for the foundation of the canton of Jura . When it was founded on November 30, 1947, the association was still called Mouvement séparatiste jurassien (MSJ) and did not take its current name until 1951.

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Shortly after the Moeckli affair , Roland Béguelin , Roger Schaffter and Daniel Charpilloz founded the Mouvement séparatiste jurassien and fought for the separation of the Jura from the canton of Bern . Béguelin published the propaganda journal “ Le Jura libre ” from 1948 , and from the summer of 1950 he became editor-in-chief.

From August 21, 1949, the MSJ organized conferences, management courses and events; among other things, a “journée patriotique” ( Patriots Day ), which from 1951 developed into the Fête du peuple jurassien . With the renaming to Rassemblement jurassien , the movement turned itself on the partisan politics and the confessional differences and from then on used its forces for a new Swiss canton according to the federalist idea. In 1957, the MSJ launched a cantonal legislative initiative for a referendum in the seven Jurassic districts in the Bernese Jura . After the vote in 1959 was negative, the movement was severely slowed down.

Roland Béguelin, however, brought new wind to the subject when he tried with his ethnolinguistic strategy to create political constraints by internationalizing the conflict. Many subsidiary organizations, including the Jurassiens de l'extérieur , the militant youth organization Béliers , the Association féminine pour la défense du Jura and the Mouvement universitaire jurassien controlled social life in the Jura. These organizations gave the desired separatism a rebellious tone, accompanied by an emerging generation with pacifist thoughts.

In a new vote on June 23, 1974, the electorate approved the separation and the new canton was founded on January 1, 1979. In 1976 the Rassemblement jurassien grouped with the Unité jurassienne to form the Mouvement autonomiste jurassien (MAJ) and was able to exert political pressure on the institutions until the beginning of the 21st century.

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