Anti-Chinese action in Swiss elections
Lena Lio poster
I tried to stay away from the Cantonal election in Vaud in March, although in terms of posters, they seem to attract much more attention compared to the federal elections at the end of 2011. But today, it looked like the electoral struggle was getting a nasty turn.
A poster shows a local member of the Vert Liberaux (Green Liberals), Lena Lio, also known under her Chinese name Jiang-Liu Yu, is running since five year a Chinese restaurant in Pully and a former dipl0mat.
But opponents have added the message she is an ex-member of the Chinese communist party, and – while not a strange assumption for a Chinese diplomat – it seems hardly relevant for her current political activities.
Her party has filed a complaint.
A translation from a French weblog:
The victim was vert’libéral Party, Wednesday, suffered from many acts of vandalism, mainly in the district of Lavaux-Oron and Broye Vully. The posters of Lena Lio, the leading candidate for election to the Grand Council, were tagged with xenophobic and racist remarks. ”The perpetrators of these attacks, reacts Lena Lio, are short of arguments. I made my Chinese passport long after serving in diplomacy. I am a Swiss woman with an Asian face who fights for the improvement of living conditions of older persons and development of SMEs in the canton of Vaud. “”Through these attacks, it is the Swiss democracy is flouted” , notes Charles Andrew Montandon, president of the Lavaux-Oron. A complaint was lodged against unknown persons.
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