In Vaud the Socialist Party was also divided, as the majority led by Jeanneret-Minkine sided with Nicole.
Other committee members included Eugène Masson, Ernest Gloor, Maurice Jeanneret and Albert Karlen.
The only key differences between the parties were their views on the international situation, the war and the Soviet Union.
[2] As implied by its name, FSS had a federal structure in which the affiliated organizations remained autonomous.
The government also wished to ban the FSS as such, but found it legally complicated as the party had four members of parliament (Léon Nicole, Jacques Dicker, Ernest Gloor and Eugène Masson).
It supported electoral candidatures of politicians wanting to repeal the ban on the party (such as Florian Delhorbe in Vaud in July 1942 and Professor William Rappard in Geneva in September 1941), and sought an alliance with the German-speaking Landesring of Gottlieb Duttweiler.