Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
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| Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | |
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 1 January 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Christoph Blocher |
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 1 January 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Christoph Blocher |
| Born | 16 March 1956 |
| Political party | SVP |
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (born 16 March 1956) is a Swiss lawyer, politician, and member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2008.
Widmer-Schlumpf is married and has three children. She is the daughter of former federal councillor Leon Schlumpf. She is the second federal councillor whose father had held the same office, after Eugène Ruffy, and the sixth woman to be elected to the Swiss Federal Council.
Widmer-Schlumpf received her degree in law at the University of Zürich in 1981 and her LLD in 1990. She worked as a lawyer from 1987 to 1998. She was elected to the district court of Trin in 1985, presiding from 1991 to 1997. She was in the cantonal legislative of Grisons 1994 to 1998, and in 1998 was elected to the cantonal government as the first woman, acting as president in 2001 and 2005.
Widmer-Schlumpf was named as an alternative candidate to Christoph Blocher by the Christian Democrat, Social Democrat and Green fractions in the Swiss Federal Council elections of 12 December 2007. In the first round, she received 116 votes, compared to 111 votes for Blocher. In the second round, she was elected federal councillor with 125 votes, 115 votes going to Blocher and 6 spurious, empty or invalid. She accepted her election on 13 December 2007; however, the Swiss People's Party's caucus announced that they will exclude her from their group's meetings.[1]
[edit] Works
- Voraussetzungen der Konzession bei Radio und Fernsehen. doctorate thesis. Helbing und Lichtenhahn, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-7190-1157-7.
[edit] References
- ^ BBC News. Far-right leaves Swiss government, 13 December 2007.
[edit] External links
- Profile of Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf with election results on the website of the Swiss Federal Council.
- Official biography
- homepage at the conference of cantonal finance directors
- Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf: CV.
- "Swiss MPs reject far-right leader", BBC News, 12 December 2007.
- Widmer-Schlumpf accepts cabinet post, swissinfo 13 December 2007.
- Swiss consensus government falls as rightists quit, Reuters, 13 December 2007.
| Preceded by Christoph Blocher | Member of the Swiss Federal Council 2008– | Succeeded by None |
Current Members of the Swiss Federal Council | |
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Moritz Leuenberger · Pascal Couchepin · Samuel Schmid · Micheline Calmy-Rey · Hans-Rudolf Merz · Doris Leuthard · Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | Image:Coat of Arms of Switzerland.svg |
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