Josi Meier

Josi J. Meier , born the August 31st 1926 with Dagmersellen and deceased the November 4th 2006 with Lucerne is a Political personality Suisse.

Mandates

It was national adviser of 1971 to 1983 then appointed with the Council of the States of 1983 to 1995 in the rows of PDC.

Its first great federal mission was the membership of the Wahlen commission which prepared the total revision of the constitution. It wrote the chapters “the political rights; citizens and inhabitants; the protection of the minorities like those on national defense”. It was one of the first ten women to be sat at the National council in 1971 and the first to chair the Council of the States into 1991/92.

Biography

Laid off in right of the University of Geneva and lawyer of reputation, she managed to be made elect with the Grand the Council lucernois in 1971 then a few months later with the National council by détrônant an outgoing adviser. The chance of the placement had put it beside Kurt Furgler, then president of the Christian-Democrat group. She asked to him whether one did not have to him to give up this seat in favor of beaten it with what the future federal adviser answered him with balance: “It is not question, Josi” .

At the federal Parliament, it specialized in three fields, the right, the Social Security and the foreign affairs. It was the vice-president of the board of inquiry Parliament on the events to the DFJP. Josi Meier was for many parliamentary women a model difficult to equalize .

One remembers his parliamentary initiative for the harmonization of the Social Security. In the field of the foreign relations, it occupied all the functions: president of the commission of foreign policy, president successively of the delegations near the parliamentary Parliament of the Council of Europe, the interparliamentary Union and the parliamentary Parliament of the SOEC. She liked each moment of these activities which put it in relation to representatives of all the countries of the world . One saw it of Pyongyang to Santiago of Chile, of Ottawa with Canberra, to defend with the same faith the cause of the freedom of the people. Spain planned to decree the Order of Isabelle to him the Catholic but it had to decline this distinction because of the constitutional article prohibiting decorations . But nothing prevented that it accepts the doctorate honoris causa of the Université of Freiburg.

Josi Meier could pay its person and was not satisfied to discourse . It was president of the committee of the human rights of the interparliamentary Union and for this reason went in the cell of the Kurdish deputy Leyla Zana to bring support and comfort to him . At the time of the cold war, it fought with energy totalitarianisms of all kinds . It held to visit Czechoslovakia can before its division in two States and to appreciate closely this peaceful divorce. At the time of an interview with the Prime Minister Li Peng, it tackled the question of the human rights in China and in Tibet in terms not ambiguities .

The election of Alphons Egli with the Federal council in 1983 enabled him to stand as candidate to her succession to the Conseil of the States where it sat until 1995.

Its service at the time of the Session of the women in 1991 remained in the memories: " " , she had declared.

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