State and non-state actors operating in officially multilingual systems must take into account the presence of different linguistic communities. One might ask, then, how political communication is made possible in such contexts. In particular, it seems of paramount importance that in a democratic setting, discussions not be compartmentalised within distinct groups according to mother tongue. In other words, it is crucial to ensure that messages are coordinated across languages. In our qualitative study, we are interested in the practices implemented by three Swiss political parties in order to ensure this interlinguistic coordination in the production of the periodicals published for the party members. These “interlinguistic coordination modes”, as we call them, may entail the more or less extensive use of translation. Beyond the description of the practices, the study aims at understanding the rationale underlying the choice of a particular practice and defined as a coherent set of representational and material, external and internal elements. In order to understand the practices, semi-structured interviews have been conducted with the people in charge of the publications, and the rationales thus retrieved have been compared. Particular attention is given to elements that differ from one party to another and that seem to explain the implementation of one practice over another. Results are presented according to three main themes: historical development of the publications, perception of translation, and interconnection between political strategy and values. More generally, the study suggests that many elements come into play in the multilingual production of political texts and that the issue is much more complicated than a mere distinction between translation and non-translation.