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The SVP previously ran an anti-immigration campaign featuring three white sheep kicking a black sheep off a Swiss flag. The campaign was condemned as racist by rights groups and the United Nations.

 

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Swiss voters recently rejected another SVP proposal which would have made it more difficult for foreigners to secure citizenship, a campaign which included posters of yellow and black hands grabbing at Swiss passports.

 

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Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey has said a minaret ban would threaten security, and the country's seven-member ruling council said this month it would "naturally be recommending that parliament and the electorate vote against the initiative."

 

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The SVP's populist program focuses on tackling crime, forcing cuts in public spending and keeping Switzerland out of the European Union.

 

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It has proven highly popular with Swiss voters in recent years and helped the party secure around 29 percent of the vote in last year's national election.

 

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Reuters: Oddly Enough

Body of ballooning
priest found at sea ​

 

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Wed Jul 30,

 

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1:23 PM ET

 

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RIO DE JANEIRO

 

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(Reuters) -

 

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(Reporting by Rodrigo Viga Gaier;

 

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Writing by Ana Nicolaci da Costa)

 

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Reuters Photo: Roman Catholic priest Adelir Antonio de Carli, 42, flies in a harness-like seat suspended from...

 

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The body of a Brazilian priest who floated out over the ocean suspended by hundreds of helium-filled party balloons, has been found off the coast of southeastern Brazil, police have confirmed.

 

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The corpse of Father Adelir Antonio de Carli was spotted by a tugboat at sea near the city of Macae, three months after he disappeared while flying a contraption buoyed by balloons over the Atlantic Ocean in a fund-raising stunt.

 

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"We were almost certain that it was the priest due to various elements, such as the clothes and material used in the balloon trip," Macae's chief of police, Daniel Bandeira, said on Monday. "The DNA only confirmed our suspicions."

 

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The priest disappeared on April 20 after he called friends from his mobile phone to say he was about to crash into the ocean.

 

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He staged the stunt to help raise money for a chapel for truckers in his highway parish.