Walter Müller (politician, 1948)

Walter Müller, 2007

Walter Müller (born April 25, 1948 in Azmoos ) is a Swiss politician ( FDP ) and was a member of the National Council from 2003 to 2019 .

From 1997 to 2005, Müller was President of the St. Gallen Farmers 'Association and from 1998 to 2006 on the board of the Swiss Farmers' Association . From the 2003 elections he was a member of the National Council, where he was a member of the Foreign Policy Commission, the Security Commission, the Special Commission for the New Financial Equalization and in the delegation on relations with the Austrian Parliament and the Liechtenstein Parliament. In 2015, Müller was reprimanded by the party leadership of the FDP for accepting an invitation to a trip to Kazakhstan at the expense of an opaque politician . In July 2015, the National Council's Immunity Commission spoke out against lifting immunity after the federal prosecutor's office wanted to initiate criminal proceedings in the Kazakhstan affair. He did not run for the 2019 parliamentary elections .

Walter Müller is a farmer, married and has four children. He attended the Rheineck agricultural school and the commercial school in Buchs . In the military he had the rank of first lieutenant .

Web links

• Walter Müller on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Walter Müller's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Häfliger: FDP leadership takes action in the Kazakhstan affair. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 11, 2015
2. ↑ Immunity should remain , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 4, 2015, p. 30