Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter

Swiss politician
Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter
Member of the National Council of Switzerland
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 2010
Personal details
Born (1964-02-19) 19 February 1964 (age 60)
Basel
Political partyChristian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland

Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter (born 19 February 1964 Basel) is a Swiss jurist and politician of The Centre (formerly known as the Christian Democratic People's Party).[1]

Political career

She has been a member of the parliament of the Canton Basel-Landschaft since 1999,[1] over which she also presided in the term between 2006 and 2007.[2] In November 2010, she replaced the resigning Kathrin Amacker in the National Council.[3] She was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).[4]

At the party conference of the CVP Baselland in October 2018, Schneider-Schneiter was nominated as a candidate for the successor of Doris Leuthard in the Federal Council.[5] She would have been the first Federal Councillor from the Basel Landschaft in 123 years.[5] However, the CVP later decided to present a two-person ticket with the National Councilor Viola Amherd of Canton Valais and the councilor of Uri Heidi Z’graggen for the Federal Council election.[6] Eventually, Viola Amherd was elected into the Federal Council.[7] In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2019, Schneider-Schneiter was re-elected to the National Council rather comfortably as the CVP entered the elections within a political alliance with the Green Liberal Party (GLP) and the Evangelical People's Party (EVP).[8]

Further activities

Schneider-Schneiter is the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Basel and a member of the Board of Directors in the Economiesuisse.[9] She is also a Member of the Board at Primeo Energy[10] and the President of the European Youth Choir Festival.[11]

Personal life

She lives is married and has two children.[12] Living in Biel-Benken, her places of origin are Basel, Lenzburg and Schwendibach.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ratsmitglied ansehen". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  2. ^ "Schneider Elisabeth". baselland.ch (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  3. ^ "Dritte CVP-Nominierung - Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter kandidiert für den Bundesrat". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2018-10-18. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  4. ^ "Ms. Elisabeth Schneider-Scheiter". Archived from the original on 2020-03-06.
  5. ^ a b Stula, Bojan. "Bundesratswahl - Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter kandidiert für den Bundesrat". bz - Zeitung für die Region Basel (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  6. ^ Schwald, Patrik Müller und Andreas. "Bundesratswahlen - "Habe den Weg für eine Basler Bundesrätin geebnet": Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter mit grossen Worten". St.Galler Tagblatt (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  7. ^ swissinfo.ch. "Viola Amherd and Karin Keller-Sutter elected to government". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  8. ^ "Listenverbindung in der Mitte - Keine Zitterpartie mehr dank Grünliberalen und EVP". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2019-09-19. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  9. ^ "Board | economiesuisse". www.economiesuisse.ch. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  10. ^ "Primeo Energie auf Wachstumskurs – Delegierte bestätigen die Anträge des Verwaltungsrats". www.strom.ch (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  11. ^ "Organigramm". Europäisches Jugendchorfestival Basel (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  12. ^ Matt, Othmar von. "CVP-Bundesratskandidatinnen - Zwei Frauen, zwei Welten: So unterschiedlich sind Schneider-Schneiter und Amherd". Aargauer Zeitung. Retrieved 2021-04-28.

External links

  • Personal website
  • CVP profile