Jacques-Simon Eggly

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Jacques-Simon Eggly

Jacques-Simon Eggly (born September 4, 1942 in Geneva , resident in Bellevue ) is a Swiss politician ( LPS ).

Eggly has the Licentiate of Law won and was then a political reporter for the newspaper Le Temps operates. He later received his diploma from the Geneva University Institute for International Studies and then worked as a teacher.

From 1977 to 1983 he was on the Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva . On November 28, 1983, he was elected to the National Council and sat on several commissions. In 1997 he was elected president by his party and held this office until 2002. In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2007 he did not run again and therefore left the grand chamber on December 2, 2007.

Eggly was President of the Working Group on Southern Africa (ASA) from 1993 . He has been President of the Organization of the Swiss Abroad (OSA) since 2007 .

Jacques-Simon Eggly received the Prix de l'amitié Franco-Suisse at the Grand Société in Bern in 2012.

Eggly is married and has three children. He lives in Geneva .

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  1. 2007 elections: Members of the National Council who are no longer running for the National Council. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 10, 2011 ; Retrieved December 6, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parlament.ch
  2. ^ Roger Pfister: Switzerland and South Africa during apartheid. Controversy and “agenda setting” after 1998. ETH Zurich, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-905648-30-X , doi: 10.3929 / ethz-a-004046723 , p. 7, fn. 18.
  3. Parties vying to organize the Swiss Abroad. swissinfo , accessed December 6, 2009 .