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Anyone interested in political messages in public spaces will have noticed posters with powerful messages in recent weeks: “Population Stress,” read one, with a note below stating that Switzerland has grown 16 times faster than Germany since the year 2000. Source: the World Bank.
The poster, bordered at the bottom by a thick black bar, shows a crowd of people from behind. They could be commuters or passersby on a street; the context is unclear. Combined with the polemical term “Dichtestress” and the timing of the poster campaign—the kickoff to the referendum campaign for the “No to a 10-Million-Switzerland” initiative—the impression is inevitable: Someone is playing politics here. But who?
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JollyQuiscalus