Liechtenstein Keeps Status Quo
(N.Z.P A.-Reuter —Copyright; VADUZ (Liechtenstein), Feb. 7. The men of Liechtenstein this week-end quietly and casually voted back into power the same Government that has ruled since 1928. Almost to the vote, this fyrcely-independent little
country’s three political parties retained the status quo of four years ago. The Progressive Citizens Party—led by Dr. Gergard Batliner, aged 37, still holds eight seats, the Opposition Homeland Union still holds seven and the five-year-old Social Party is still unrepresented.
The Progressive Citizen’s
Party had a majority of 211 it is simply an apendage to votes—l7B9 compared with Switzerland. the Opposition’s 1578. The mention of such a Once again the election thing to members of the campaign had been fought country’s 20,000 population almost entirely on domestic meets with a very severe issues such as social welfare, rebuff.
The internal calm of Liechtenstein, squeezed between Austria and Switzerland, appears only able to be shattered by the suggestion that
They make it clear they have no intention of relinquishing their independence, which is more than three centuries old. 7
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 17
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