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Family reunionFor the SVP, better Swiss discriminated than the arrival of foreigners
The party opposes a reform that will put Swiss and Europeans on an equal footing when they want to bring a member of their family from a third country.
What is worse for the SVP? Immigration or Swiss people who are discriminated against in their own country compared to foreigners? The answer is immigration. The party is vehemently opposed to a modification of the law on foreigners which aims to remove the unequal treatment suffered by Swiss citizens.
Indeed, at the present time, in terms of family reunification, foreigners who live in Switzerland thanks to the Agreement on the free movement of persons with the EU/EFTA benefit from more flexible rules than Swiss nationals who are subject to Swiss law on foreigners, when they want to bring from a third country children or parents who do not have Swiss nationality. The reform, the consultation of which ends this week, wants to put everyone on an equal footing.
Discrimination: a pretext
An example was cited during the debates in parliament. A Swiss woman of Georgian origin had sought to bring her mother to Switzerland from Georgia. The courts refused to allow it, whereas they would have authorized it if she had been a citizen of an EU country, under the rules contained in the Agreement on free movement.
However, for the UDC, the limitation of immigration is a higher objective than that of erasing differences in treatment. “It is unacceptable that the parliament proposes new reductions in terms of migratory flows, says the party in its position paper. Under the pretext of wanting to grant equal rights to Swiss citizens, it is in reality a real call for air that will be provoked.