Lucrezia Meier-Schatz

Lucrezia Meier-Schatz

Lucrezia Meier-Schatz (born January 4, 1952 in Le Locle , Canton Neuchâtel ; resident in Tartar ) is a Swiss politician ( CVP ).

Life

After completing her political science degree at the University of Neuchâtel , she was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley from 1984 to 1988 . She received her doctorate in 1989 from the University of Neuchâtel with a dissertation on the relationship between the Church, Christian Democracy and the protection of the human rights of migrant workers.

Lucrezia Meier-Schatz entered politics early on. In 1975, at the age of 23, she headed the Political Studies department in the General Secretariat of CVP Switzerland. She stayed in this position until 1983, but continuously expanded her political activities. Between 1978 and 1983 she held the office of Vice President of the Federal. Commission for Youth and was (1979-1982) member of the expert commission family report of EDI . Between 1992 and 1994 she was responsible for the planning and implementation of the International Year of the Family 1994 on behalf of the federal government . From 1996 to 2004 she chaired the CVP of the canton of St. Gallen. From 2000 to 2012 she was a member of the party presidency of CVP Switzerland. In 2008 she was a candidate for the St. Gallen government council elections. However, she missed an absolute majority in the first ballot and after a meeting with the party leadership decided not to participate in the second ballot.

She was a member of the National Council from the 1999 to 2015 elections . Her political priorities are family , social , economic and tax policy. She is a member of the Commission for Economy and Taxes of the National Council , the delegation to the Interparliamentary Union , the delegation for relations with the Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein and the delegation for relations with the Austrian Parliament .

According to the Parliament's register of interests, Meier-Schatz is also a member of the Board of Directors of CSS Holding AG in Lucerne, President of the Fastenopfer Foundation , President of the Children & Violence Foundation and member of the Board of Trustees of the following foundations: Swiss Greina Foundation (SGS) for the conservation of Alpine rivers, Swissaid in Bern, Autism Eastern Switzerland, avanti donne. She is President of the Board of Directors of the Church and Propstei Peter & Paul as well as managing director of the Swiss umbrella association of family organizations Pro Familia Switzerland and a member of the committee of the World Family Organization Europe (WFO-E).

Roschacher affair

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In 2007 she was in the limelight in her capacity as President of the FDJP / BK sub-commission of the GPK national council. On the occasion of the presentation of a report by the sub-commission, she publicly hinted at the involvement of Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher in an alleged plot against former federal prosecutor Valentin Roschacher. The central statements about the documents with which she justified this suspicion turned out to be untrue shortly afterwards.

The SVP then accused the CVP of leading a politically motivated intrigue against Christoph Blocher, with Meier-Schatz being a driving force. She finally resigned from the GPK for the new legislative period and switched to the Commission for Economy and Taxes (WAK). Christoph Blocher and Christoph Mörgeli filed a criminal complaint on September 4, 2008. a. against Meier-Schatz for violation of official secrecy, coercion and "unlawful association to impair the constitutional order". The Extraordinary Public Prosecutor Thomas Hug , appointed by the Federal Council to investigate, asked the National Council to lift Meier-Schatz's parliamentary immunity in order to be able to initiate criminal proceedings against her. On June 10, 2009, the Council of States, in agreement with the National Council, spoke in favor of protecting Meier-Schatz's immunity. It is thus protected from criminal prosecution in connection with its parliamentary activities.

Private

Lucrezia Meier-Schatz is the mother of two adult sons. She speaks fluent French and German ( bilingual ) as well as English and lives in St. Peterzell .

Web links

• Lucrezia Meier-Schatz website
• Lucrezia Meier-Schatz on the website of the Federal Assembly

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nicolas Michel (ed.): Rerum Novarum 1891-1991. Cent ans d'enseignement social chrétien / Hundred years of Christian social teaching . University of Freiburg (Switzerland), Friborg 1991, p. 82.
2. ↑ Lucrezia Meier-Schatz, 1989. L'Eglise, la démocratie chrétienne et les droits de l'homme des travailleurs migrants , Etudes et recherches d'histoire contemporaine, Série politique. Dissertation, University of Neuchâtel, ISBN 2-8271-0438-5 .
3. ↑ Hansjürg Zumstein: Documentary "Action Secret Plan - How Notes Became Plots". (No longer available online.) DOK , December 6, 2007, archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; accessed on May 15, 2016 (the video cannot currently be played for legal reasons). 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.  
4. ↑ Council of States leaves national councils unscathed. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 10, 2009, accessed on May 15, 2016 .