WOZ takes aim at SVP newspaper with supplement
A week before the Federal Council elections, the WOZ resorts to some special satirical tactics: it publishes *Der Schweizer*, a fictitious SVP newspaper, under the name «Sonderbund.» In doing so, the WOZ is responding to the SVP’s statement that it would launch a daily newspaper should Christoph Blocher be voted out of office.
One week before the Federal Council elections, the WOZ resorts to special satirical means: The fictitious SVP newspaper Der Schweizer appears as a "Sonderbund". The WOZ is thus picking up on the SVP's statement that it will launch a daily newspaper if Christoph Blocher is voted out of office. Now that the first edition of this newspaper is already on the market, nobody has to fear Blocher's departure, says the WOZ. What's more, everyone would benefit from it: The SVP could save itself the trouble of launching the newspaper, the parliamentarians would be spared the threat and the population would be spared another Blocher term of office. The Schweizer is the first Bund to be enclosed with the WOZ and can also be bought at newsstands - and some buyers will be surprised when the WOZ appears behind the right-wing paper. The eight-page supplement deals in woodcut style with topics such as "climate-friendly nuclear power plants", a new Red/Green damage list, secret camps of Romanian thieves and working mother Sandra Studer. Authors with illustrious names such as Traugott Hösli, Silvia Heidi Blöchlinger and Henriette Hunkeler were at work. In the best Weltwoche style, a "Diary of the Editor-in-Chief" is emblazoned on the last page. The newspaper appears complete with abotalon and advertising for an initiative calling for the "abolition of foreign countries".
