[1] Since April 2014, Lukas Reimann has been the president of AUNS, taking over from Pirmin Schwander.

[1] While the AUNS describes itself as a non-partisan organization,[2] it has been closely associated with the Swiss People's Party (SVP).

It was presided by notable SVP member Christoph Blocher from 1986 to 2003, and is strongly associated with Blocher's rise to a dominating figure in Swiss politics and the rise of right-wing populism orchestrated by SVP campaigns in the 1990s and 2000s.

[5] According to its website, the AUNS supports Swiss independence, neutrality, and direct democracy.

[6] On its website, the AUNS explicitly distances itself from racism, antisemitism and neo-Nazism, arguing that their ideology is the direct opposite of National Socialism which aimed at an "empire as dictatorship" while their own ideal is "independence, neutrality and direct democracy in Switzerland.