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Mr Blocher's party had won the biggest share of the vote in October's elections.
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In short, as an industrialist, Mr Blocher is happy to reap the benefits of freely available labour.
ECONOMIST: Christoph Blocher, ascendant Swiss populist
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The Swiss parliament elected Christoph Blocher of the far-right Swiss People's Party to the country's seven-man cabinet.
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Mr Blocher is at pains to distance himself from Mr Haider, and other leaders of the far right.
ECONOMIST: Christoph Blocher, ascendant Swiss populist
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All the same, there remains something unsavoury about Mr Blocher's views of outsiders.
ECONOMIST: Christoph Blocher, ascendant Swiss populist
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Its leader, Christoph Blocher, had already accused ministers of pandering to foreigners.
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From his tenth-floor office with its commanding views of Zurich, Mr Blocher owns and manages a multi-billion-dollar chemicals company whose activities reach from Taiwan to North America.
ECONOMIST: Christoph Blocher, ascendant Swiss populist
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Mr Blocher was cheered by a crowd of middle-aged mainly German-speakers, stressing the support his People's Party enjoys in eastern Switzerland, particularly in the smaller, tradition-minded cantons.
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Moreover, parts of Mr Blocher's nationalist doctrine are perfectly respectable.
ECONOMIST: Christoph Blocher, ascendant Swiss populist
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Disarmingly measured and charming in conversation, Mr Blocher shows the fire in his belly when out on the campaign, singing patriotic folk songs and bellowing at rallies, especially in the German-Swiss valleys.
ECONOMIST: Christoph Blocher, ascendant Swiss populist
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If many of the contemporary European fears about globalisation, immigration and sovereignty crowd into little Alpine Switzerland, then the contradictions of the populist response to them meet in the character of Mr Blocher.
ECONOMIST: Christoph Blocher, ascendant Swiss populist
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Time off: Pals around with Christoph Blocher.
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