Luc Recordon

Luc Recordon

Luc Recordon (born September 20, 1955 in Pully , Canton of Vaud ) is a Swiss politician ( Greens ) and was a member of the Council of States from 2007 to 2015 .

From March 1990 to November 2003 Recordon was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Cantonal Bank of Vaudois. Since 1990 he has been a member of the municipal executive of Jouxtens-Mézery near Lausanne. Recordon was from the National Council elections in 2003 bis 2007 National Council . In the second round of the Council of States election in the canton of Vaud on November 11, 2007, Recordon won the seat of the resigning Christiane Langenberger (FDP) with 86,350 votes.

On November 23, 2007, the Green parliamentary group announced that it would run Luc Recordon against Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher for the Federal Council elections in December 2007 . This candidacy was clearly confirmed by the assembly of delegates of the Greens on December 1, 2007. As announced, Recordon finally withdrew the candidacy in the elections when it became clear that Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf would have a chance against Christoph Blocher.

Recordon was again put up as a candidate by the green parliamentary group for the 2008 Federal Council election . After the first ballot, he announced the suspension of his candidacy and called for the election of Hansjörg Walter .

In the 2015 federal elections , Recordon came in second on October 18, but fell short of an absolute majority. In the second ballot on November 8, 2015, he was defeated by the FDP candidate Olivier Français . His election result would have been enough for a seat in the National Council; Recordon, however, waived in favor of the previous Adèle Thorens Goumaz and announced his resignation from national politics.

Recordon was born with stunted shins due to a rare genetic abnormality ( Holt-Oram syndrome ) and has two prostheses.

He is a graduate engineer EPFL and Dr. iur. and lawyer with his own law firm.

Web links

• Luc Recordon on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Luc Recordon. Candidacy Senate elections of 23 October 2011. In: electoral platform Smartvote . Politools - Political Research Network, accessed November 1, 2011 . 
• Genetic testing on embryos. The Paradox , portrait and interview from the weekly newspaper from June 23, 2005
• Luc Recordon: I only plead for information ( memento from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), interview by Pro Infirmis from October 28, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Greens nominate Luc Recordon again , article on NZZ Online of November 21, 2008
2. ↑ Official Bulletin United Federal Assembly - Winter Session 2008 - Eighth Session - 10.12.08-08.00
3. ↑ Le Vaudois Olivier Français évince Luc Recordon du Conseil des Etats . Radio Télévision Suisse , November 8, 2015
4. ↑ Deuxième tour aux Etats - flash de 3 p.m. , La Télé , November 8, 2015
5. ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/Die-Beherung-ist-ein-Privileg/story/21232545