Géraldine Savary

Géraldine Savary (2015)

Géraldine Savary (born November 14, 1968 in Bulle ; resident in Sâles ) is a Swiss politician ( SP ). She was a member of the National Council and the Council of States .

Life

Savary began her political career in 1998 on the Lausanne City Council . In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2003 , she was elected to the National Council, in the 2007 elections to the Council of States for the canton of Vaud . In the Council of States she is a member of the Commission for Science, Education and Culture, the Commission for Legal Issues, the Commission for Transport and Telecommunications and the editorial commission. From June 1999 to December 2003 she was President of the SP Lausanne. In 2017, she campaigned against the planned Swiss import ban on foie gras produced in a cruel manner . In November 2018, she announced that she did not want to stand for re-election to the Council of States in 2019 . It had previously become known that the Russian honorary consul in western Switzerland, Frederik Paulsen , had supported her several times in the election campaign.

She has been President of the Federal Postal Commission PostCom since the beginning of 2020 , succeeding Hans Hollenstein .

Géraldine Savary is a journalist, lives in Lausanne, is married to the mayor of Lausanne, Grégoire Junod (SP), and has two children. She is a French- Swiss citizen .

Web links

Commons : Géraldine Savary - Collection of Images

Géraldine Savary on the website of the Federal Assembly ( proposals submitted )
Géraldine Savary on the PostCom website

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Wilhelm: The foie gras trench. In: Basler Zeitung. October 10, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
↑ «I have no more strength». Tages-Anzeiger, November 8, 2018 (archive)
^ Federal Council elects Géraldine Savary as the new President of PostCom. In: Admin.ch , December 5, 2019.
^ Philippe Reichen: Swiss politician couples - and the consequences. What if a husband and wife live together and hold positions of influence at the same time? Career problems, for example. In: Tages-Anzeiger Online . Tamedia AG , November 21, 2016, p. 1 , archived from the original ; accessed on November 7, 2018 .
↑ Othmar von Matt: Every 13th parliamentarian is a dual citizen. In: Switzerland on the weekend of July 29, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Savary, Géraldine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss politician (SP), member of the Council of States
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bulle , Switzerland

[1] Martin Wilhelm: The foie gras trench. In: Basler Zeitung. October 10, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .

[2] «I have no more strength». Tages-Anzeiger, November 8, 2018 (archive)

[3] Federal Council elects Géraldine Savary as the new President of PostCom. In: Admin.ch , December 5, 2019.

[4] Philippe Reichen: Swiss politician couples - and the consequences. What if a husband and wife live together and hold positions of influence at the same time? Career problems, for example. In: Tages-Anzeiger Online . Tamedia AG , November 21, 2016, p. 1 , archived from the original ; accessed on November 7, 2018 .

[5] Othmar von Matt: Every 13th parliamentarian is a dual citizen. In: Switzerland on the weekend of July 29, 2018.