President Ueli Maurer (but leading spokesmen, Christoph Blocher) 26.6% of the 2003 general election votes Previously a minor agrarian and small business party, the SVP's steady growth in support is attributed to its billionaire, industrialist promoter Christoph Blocher, who has financed referendum campaigns against Swiss entry into the EU and the UN. At the height of the Kosovo crisis, the SVP called for asylum policy to be tightened. The SVP,a which is campaigning to dismantle the Swiss Commission Against Racism, has been accused of deploying anti-Semitic overtones when attacking Jewish organisations seeking compensation from Swiss banks for property and bank accounts seized during the Holocaust. The anti-immigrant SVP won the largest share if the vote in the October 2003 general election. And the Swiss parliament, after a challenge to the conventional power-sharing arrangement, elected two members of the SVP to the 7-seat cabinet - Christopher Blocher (unseating CPP Justice Minister Ruth Metzler) joining Samuel Schmid. The SVP now has 63 seats (up 11) in the 200-member House of Representatives and two seats in the Senate. During the election campaign, the SVP argued against higher taxes and close links to the EU and for tougher asylum rules. The party used to be strongest in the rural German-speaking east. But now the party has gained ground in French-speaking Switzerland and within middle-class urban constituencies.