Margret Kiener Nellen

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Margareta "Margret" Kiener Nellen (born April 17, 1953 in Bern ; legal resident in Bolligen and Baltschieder ) is a Swiss politician ( SP ). She was 2003-2019 National Council .

Margret Kiener Nellen (2008)

Life

Margret Kiener grew up in Habstetten, municipality of Bolligen. Her father Otto Kiener ( SVP ) was the mayor of Bolligen and was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern from 1962 to 1974 .

Kiener Nellen initially trained as a qualified translator (German, French, English, Italian) at the ETI Geneva . She then studied at the University of St. Gallen Business Law and graduated in 1981 with the licentiate from. For her licensed thesis, she was awarded the Prof. Walter R. Schluep Prize for the best business law and the Walter Hug Prize for the best legal thesis. In 1987 she was admitted to the bar in Geneva and has since run her own law firm in Bolligen. Since June 1, 2013, she has been a partner at the law firm Kiener & Nellen in Bern.

She has been married since 1982, has two sons and lives in Habstetten, Bolligen municipality.

Political activity

Kiener Nellen was councilor of Bolligen from 1992 to 2000, initially responsible for the police department and from 1997 for the planning department. From 2001 to 2008, she was the first woman and social democrat to be mayor of Bolligen. She was not re-elected in the 2008 municipal council elections. In the first ballot she landed in third place behind Rudolf Burger (Bolligen, independent) and Erich Sterchi (SVP), whereupon she decided not to participate in the second ballot.

From April 1990 to November 2003, Kiener Nellen was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern. In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2003 she was elected to the National Council; It was confirmed in 2007 , 2011 and 2015 . From 2003 she was a member of the Finance Commission, which she presided over as the first woman from 2009 to 2011 and 2015 to 2017. From 2007 to 2011 she was a member of the Judicial Commission and from 2011 to 2015 of the Legal Commission. She was also a member of the OSCE and IPU delegations of the Swiss Federal Assembly. She chaired the delegation of the Swiss Federal Assembly to the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE. At the Summer Conference of the OSCE PA in July 2018 in Berlin, she was elected President of the Standing Commission on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues. In this role, she headed a human rights mission to Ukraine in December 2018 and June 2019. At the IPU, she was the only Swiss woman to sit on the Executive Committee, presides the sub-committee for finance and is vice-president of the advisory board for the fight against terrorism and violent extremism. From 2012 to 2017 she was a member of the ten-person committee for human rights of the IPU in Geneva, of which she was vice-president until January 2017. After four legislative terms, she no longer ran in the 2019 elections ; her mandate in the National Council ended on December 1, 2019.

From 1996 Kiener Nellen was President of the Tenants' Association of Canton Bern (MVB). In 2006 she resigned from this position after the media reported that, as a landlord, she had illegally charged tenants. In November 2014, Kiener Nellen came under media and party pressure to buy her husband into the pension fund, which was interpreted as a tax optimization . She responded by apologizing and disclosing all of her tax records. She later withdrew her apology and spoke of a "multi-million dollar, well-planned PR campaign" by her political opponents. She stated that her husband “did exactly what the legislature specifically recommends”.

Further mandates

Kiener Nellen was President of the Association of Bernese Sports Associations (bernsport) from 2011 to 2019 and sits on the advisory board for Swiss women's football. From 2004 to the end of June 2016, she was a board member of the University Hospital Insel Bern and a member of the board of directors of the Bern Care Education Center. She is also involved in the international board of the PeaceWomenWorldwide, in the syndicom social commission and in the patronage committee of the Diemtigtal regional nature park.

Contacts with Belarus

As part of the OSCE, Kiener Nellen campaigned for Belarus not to be reprimanded at the 2017 OSCE annual meeting in Minsk for lack of freedom of expression, as a draft resolution from Sweden had called for. Kiener Nellen held a vote against this draft resolution in which she noted that freedom of expression would also be trampled in other regions of the OSCE; the Swedish resolution text was ultimately rejected in the plenary vote.

Kiener Nellen was a member of an informal parliamentary group Switzerland-Belarus, and participated in its first meeting in Bern in March 2018. Together with Andreas Aebi and Filippo Lombardi , she was co-president of the group.

Kiener Nellen is President of the Switzerland-Belarus Friendship Association , which was founded in early 2020 and is based at the address of the Belarusian embassy in Switzerland. In this function, she received the Francysk Skaryna Order in May 2020 for her personal contribution to strengthening the friendly ties and cooperation between Switzerland and Belarus . In July 2020, Kiener Nellen organized a club trip to Belarus - to Minsk, Gomel and other regions - which was also widely reported in the Belarus media.

On January 27, 2020, Kiener Nellen received the title of honorary professor at the MITSO International University , a former Soviet trade union school that was renamed the International Institute for Labor and Social Relations in 1992. As a specialist in labor law, she gave lectures at MITSO and at a conference in Minsk in February 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Der Bund , June 22, 1996.
  3. ↑ family . ( Memento from March 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) old website of Margret Kiener Nellen
  4. ↑ CV. (PDF; 35.9 kB) Margret Kiener Nellen's private website
  5. ↑ Peter Steiger: Bad defeat for Kiener. In: Berner Zeitung . December 10, 2008, accessed May 31, 2020.
  6. ↑ OSCE parliamentarians call for immediate cessation of hostilities in Ukraine conflict zones In: Press Release OSCEPA, December 21, 2018.
  7. ↑ OSCE PA human rights leaders deeply concerned about faltering respect for fundamental freedoms. In: Press Release OSCEPA, June 13, 2019.
  8. ↑ Janine Hosp: The spokespersons resign. In: Tages-Anzeiger . July 10, 2018, accessed May 31, 2020.
  9. ↑ rel: she- wolf in sheep's clothing. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 18, 2006, accessed May 31, 2020.
  10. ^ Tenants' Association throws SP National Councilor Kiener Nellen out. ( Memento from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Tagesschau Schweizer Fernsehen . May 18, 2006.
  11. ↑ SP-Basis nominates Kiener Nellen despite tax affair , Regional Journal Bern Friborg Wallis, Swiss Radio and Television , January 15, 2015, accessed on May 31, 2020.
  12. ↑ Claude Chatelain: The deep fall of a gifted politician. In: Berner Zeitung of December 2, 2014
  13. ↑ Marcello Odermatt: Markwalder slows down the liberal overflight. In: Der Bund , May 17, 2015
  14. ↑ Mischa Aebi: A non-optimized excuse. In: Berner Zeitung , November 7, 2014.
  15. ↑ Simon Wälti: Why did an SP National Councilor not pay taxes on income? In: Der Bund , November 6, 2014
  16. ↑ Mischa Aebi: “They wanted to silence me”. In: Berner Zeitung . July 27, 2015, accessed May 31, 2020.
  17. ↑ https://www.parlament.ch/centers/kb/Documents/2018/Kommissionsbericht_OSZE-V_18.011_2017-12-31.pdf
  18. ↑ https://deu.belta.by/politics/view/informelle-parlamentarian-freundschaftsgruppe-schweiz-belarus-eingerierter-33918-2017/
  19. ↑ https://www.parlament.ch/de/services/news/Seiten/belarus-2018-02-28.aspx
  20. ↑ https://eng.belta.by/society/view/switzerland-belarus-friendship-association-set-up-in-bern-127389-2020/
  21. ↑ https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/haben-zu-weissrussland-in-aller-freundschaft-mit-minsk
  22. ↑ http://president.gov.by/ru/news_ru/view/predsedatel-assotsiatsii-druzhby-shvejtsarija-belarus-margaret-kiner-nellen-nagrazhdena-ordenom-frantsiska-23705/
  23. ↑ https://www.schweiz-belarus.ch/post/delegationsreise-nach-minsk-und-gomel-34-jahre-nach-der-katastrophe-von-tschernobyl
  24. ↑ http://www.ctv.by/novosti-minska-i-minskoy-oblasti/belarus-i-shveycariya-namereny-razvivat-sotrudnichestvo-vo-vseh
  25. ↑ https://mitso.by/news/margaret-kiner-nellen-pochetnyiy-professor-mezhdunarodnogo-universiteta-mitso
  26. ↑ https://www.tvr.by/news/obshchestvo/rynok_truda_i_professii_budushchego_obsuzhdali_predstaviteli_parka_vysokikh_tekhnologiy_i_federatsiya/
personal data
SURNAME Kiener Nellen, Margret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiener Nellen, Margareta (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern