The hard-right Swiss People’s Party, which wants to tackle mass immigration and political correctness, vowed Monday to seek pragmatic solutions with other parties after comfortably topping Switzerland’s general election. Final results published Monday showed the SVP took 28.6 percent of the vote on Sunday for the National Council lower house of parliament, improving its share by three percentage points. “We defend freedom, security and independence,” SVP president Marco Chiesa told the Tribune de Geneve newspaper. “The citizens of this country have given a clear mandate to politics: to face reality and provide solutions.” The left-wing Social Democrats were left trailing on 18 percent of votes cast, while the centre-right party The Centre garnered 14.6 percent and the right-wing party called FDP.The Liberals 14.4 percent — with all three chasing parties largely flatlining. The Greens failed to replicate their dramatic 2019 election gains and slid back four percentage points to finish fifth on 9.4 percent. Swiss politics relies on consensus and Chiesa said he hoped to forge alliances with other parties to address voters’ concerns. “The fact is today there are nine million inhabitants in Switzerland and we are heading towards 10 million,” the 49-year-old said.