Anne-Catherine Menétrey-Savary

Anne-Catherine Menétrey (1992)

Anne-Catherine Menétrey-Savary (born January 29, 1938 in Aigle ) is a Swiss politician and author. She was a member of the Labor Party before joining the Greens .

Life

Anne-Catherine Menétrey-Savary, daughter of a teacher, grew up first in Ollon and later in Pully . She completed almost all of her training, up to licentiate ( license en Lettres ) in 1961, in Lausanne . After completing her studies, she taught in a secondary school in Lausanne for a few years.

She then studied psychology with Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva and taught at a Geneva school (Cycle d'Orientation) until 1970. After this degree, she worked as a school psychologist and career counselor .

As a representative of the Labor Party (POP), she was a member of the Cantonal Parliament of Vaud for 15 years , from 1966 to 1980. She resigned from parliament and the party.

In 1979 she published her first novel, La Halte de midi , 30 years later Borderline, à un compagnon disparu .

National Councilor Anne-Catherine Menétrey-Savary

In 1980, a year of personal and professional changes, she founded the Democratic Alternative ( Alternative démocratique ) party, which later became the Socialist-Green Alternative ( Alternative socialiste verte ), which later merged with the Greens .

Professionally, she worked in media research for four years. From 1984 to 2000 she worked in the prevention department at the Swiss Specialist Office for Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (SFA).

In 1997 she moved to the village of Saint-Saphorin and in 1998 she was elected as a Green in the Cantonal Parliament of Vaud. After her election to the National Council in 1999, she resigned from the cantonal parliament in 2000. She also retired from the SFA to devote herself fully to the national parliament until 2007.

Works

• La Halt de midi , Editions de la Thiele, 1979. ISBN 2828300099
• Hussein Hariri, un pirate de l'air repenti , éditions Favre, 2003. ISBN 2828907287
• Borderline, à un compagnon disparu , éditions d'en bas, 2009. ISBN 9782829003813
• Transitions , Lausanne: Ed. d'en bas; Genève: Le Courrier, 2016. ISBN 9782829005329
• Mourir debout: soixante ans d'engagement politique , Lausanne: Ed. d'En bas, 2018. ISBN 9782829005763

Web links

• Anne-Catherine Menétrey-Savary on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Anne-Catherine Menétrey-Savary at the Vaudois Libraries (with further links)
• Plans-Fixes , 2001 film about Anne-Catherine Menétrey-Savary
• Anne-Catherine Menétrey et la violence dans le couple: Les hommes libres