Félicien Morel
Félicien Morel (born March 4, 1935 in Friborg ) is a Swiss politician , national councilor and state councilor of the canton of Friborg .
Life
Morel is a Catholic and comes from Lentigny ( La Brillaz municipality ). His parents are Henri, an SBB employee, and Léa Antoinette nee. Rossier, housewife. He is the youngest of five children. In 1964 he married the German Isolde Stiegelmaier. The couple have four children.
After primary school in Freiburg and beginning an apprenticeship as a locksmith, he trained as a commercial clerk. In order to deepen his knowledge, he continued to study on his own, so that he could take the commercial matura in the last class of the St. Michael college . In 1957 Morel began studying economics and social sciences at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) , which he completed with a licentiate . Thanks to a scholarship, he received a certificate for European studies in Turin in 1960 , where he improved his Italian. He also completed internships in Germany and England. In 1963 Morel returned to Switzerland and taught at the St. Michael College. In 1969 he became secretary and editor from western Switzerland in the PTT Union . In the army he held the rank of captain .
Political career
Morel belonged to the Social Democratic Party (SP) until 1987 . In 1970 he became a local councilor in Belfaux , in 1971 a grand councilor and was a national councilor from 1975 to 1983 . In 1976 he ran for the upper office of the Saane district . In 1981 he became president of the parliamentary group in the National Council and vice-president of SP Switzerland in the same year. In Bern, he re-started the debate on employee participation in corporate governance.
In 1981 Morel was elected to the State Council (cantonal government) of the canton of Friborg. He was Head of Finance and was confirmed in office in 1986 and 1991. During his 15 years in government, he made 14 revisions of the law on cantonal taxes, often involving tax cuts. Because of his rigorous economic and financial policies, he came into conflict with the left wing of his party. Since he succeeded in significantly reducing the high national debt between 1982 and 1990, important investments were made, especially in the health and education sectors, and the salaries of state employees were improved. Among other things, he settled the delicate affair of property speculation in connection with the site of the former Beauregard brewery.
In response to the economic downturn in the early 1990s, Félicien Morel presented five austerity programs to the Grand Council and took structural measures: in 1996, for example, he submitted two reports to parliament on the new public administration, which in particular dealt with a revision of the status of public administration Hand and the subsidy policy went. Its extensive legislative activity included the laws on the Cantonal Bank (1988), the Pension Fund of State Employees (1993) and State Finances (1994). In addition, he endeavored to revise all legislation that affected the Finance Directorate.
Morel wanted to run for the Federal Council . At a tumultuous cantonal meeting in Freiburg in 1987, he was unable to obtain the broad majority that he considered necessary. The distrust that he met several times prompted him to leave the SP and support the founding of the Democratic Social Party (DSP) . Despite this split, his career as finance director was not in jeopardy: in 1991 he was re-elected with a good result. At the request of his new party, he ran for the Council of States in the same year , but was not elected.
After leaving the cantonal government in 1996, Morel remained active. Until the end of 1999 he was a member of the Banking Council of the Swiss National Bank . From 2000 to 2004 he sat on the Constitutional Council of the Canton of Friborg, from 2001 to 2006 in the General Council of Belfaux. This sent him to the Constituent Assembly of the agglomeration. From 1998 to 2006 he also chaired the Loterie Romande cantonal commission .
Further commitment
In 2003 Morel took a seat on the board of trustees of the Nicole Niquille Foundation for the Lukla Hospital in Nepal and became its treasurer, as he knew the poor sanitary situation of the Sherpa people from his own experience.
literature
- Georges Andrey , John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand et Nicolas Gex: The Freiburg Council of State: 1848–2011. History, organization, members . Editions La Sarine, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-2-88355-153-4 .
Web links
- Jean-Pierre Dorand / SK: Morel, Félicien. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morel, Félicien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician, National Councilor and State Councilor of the Canton of Friborg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg |