Joseph Cottet

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Joseph Cottet

Joseph Cottet (born April 14, 1923 in Bossonnens , Vivisbach district ; † May 23, 2019 ) was a Swiss politician ( BGB ), national councilor and state councilor of the canton of Friborg .

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Cottet, a Catholic by birth, came from Bossonnens. His parents were Robert Cottet, farmer, and Clothilde nee. Richoz. He married Odile Bochud, a seamstress. The couple had nine children.

Joseph Cottet attended primary school in Bossonnens, the regional school in Attalens and, after several years of practical work, the Agricultural Institute in Grangeneuve. He took over a farm of 35 Jucharten . On a professional level, he played a significant role in agricultural organizations. He headed the Freiburg Silo Zone Producers' Association and, as a result of this mandate, became a member of the federal commission that dealt with differentiated milk prices. As a cattle breeder, he was involved in the crossing of the Simmental and Red Holstein breeds. He was elected to the municipal council of Bossonnens, he from 1962 to 1971 as a bailiff board.

Always committed to the cause of agriculture, he became canton secretary of the Farmers, Trade and Citizens' Party (BGB) and editor of the party organ Le Courrier fribourgeois . As the successor to the resigned Robert Colliard , he became a member of the Vivisbach district in the Grand Council in 1957 , of which he was a member until 1971. From 1966 he was president of the BGB parliamentary group. He addressed a request to the State Council on the industrial development of the canton and advocated women's suffrage with a motion . He was also the university's senator and deputy supervisory commissioner of the FSB.

In 1971 Joseph Cottet was elected to the State Council. He headed the management of the military, agriculture, forestry and state affairs from 1971 to the reorganization from 1973 and then the agricultural, police and military management until 1981. The institutions of Bellechasse and the cantonal building insurance were affiliated to his management. He submitted laws to the Grand Council on the taxation of ships (1974) and motor vehicles, trailers and bicycles (1975) and on the cinema and theater (1977), a law that abolished censorship. In 1976, thanks to him, Parliament passed financial aid for the victims of the drought. In 1976 and 1980 he was President of the State Council.

The focus of his activities was Grangeneuve. In 1971 the people turned down a loan for the buildings in Grangeneuve, but in 1973 they changed their minds. Responsible for the modernization of the agricultural and dairy schools, Joseph Cottet had to justify credit increases in 1978 for the renovation of the Agricultural Institute Grangeneuve, which was inaugurated on May 13, 1981.

Joseph Cottet presented a law on fisheries (1979) to Parliament. At his request, the Fire Police Act of 1964 was amended in 1981. He also campaigned for the renovation of the Mattenkaserne and the central prison. The Ogoz winery , which was united with the Les Faverges estate, was sold by the state to KGV.

The memory of the two Freiburg squadrons, which were disbanded in 1973 when the cavalry was abolished , gave rise to the idea of ​​creating a mounted troop. Thanks to Cottet's persistence, the “Cadre Noir et Blanc” was created in 1981. The chosen uniform is an authentic and historical replica of the uniform of the Freiburg Dragoons from 1792.

Since Joseph Cottet was no longer on the joint list with the CVP , he was no longer re-elected in 1981 when the people opted for a «proportional representation» government with representatives of the three major parties (3 CVP, 2 SP , 2 FDP ), but his share of the vote grew from 21 to 32% between the two ballots. He was supported by an "non-partisan action committee for a Friborg Entente", which campaigned for the election of six bourgeois candidates, but was of the opinion that this would no longer respect the agreement that had linked the CVP with the BGB since February 1966.

In 1963 he ran in vain for the National Council ; the BGB had to pay for the Freiburg deputation to be reduced from 7 to 6 seats and for the FDP to gain one seat. In 1967 Joseph Cottet had no success either. In contrast, he was elected to the National Council in 1983 as a representative of the Swiss People's Party, of which he was a member until 1987. Thanks to rapprochement with the Christian Social Party, the SVP was able to win a seat in Bern. Cottet was a member of the Foreign Commission and the Swiss delegation of the EFTA Parliamentary Committee , of which he was Vice-President in 1987. He continued to be interested in agricultural issues and filed a motion on the sixth agricultural report (1985). In 1986 he was no longer elected to the Bossonnens council.

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  1. ↑ Joseph Cottet s'est éteint accessed on May 25, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Cottet, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician, National Councilor and State Councilor of the Canton of Friborg
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bossonnens
DATE OF DEATH 23 May 2019