Marie Garnier

Marie Garnier

Marie Garnier (born April 10, 1962 in Bern ) is a Swiss politician ( Green Party of Switzerland ) and was State Councilor for the canton of Friborg .

Life

Garnier, a Catholic by birth, comes from Saignelégier (JU), where the family who immigrated from France had moved since 1803. Marie Garnier's grandfather, a psychiatrist, settled in the canton of Friborg and married Jeanne Pernet from Romont for the second time. Her parents are Dr. med. Bernard Garnier, doctor and lecturer in medicine, captain of the medical troops, free-spirited general councilor and grand councilor of the city of Freiburg, who was particularly committed to the protection of cultural property and bilingualism, and Thérèse née. Jew, nurse. Marie Garnier's partner is Olivier Overney, son of Clément Overney and Lucette nee. Dupasquier, grandson of Constant Overney (1901–1996), conservative member of the National Council (1955–1963) and the Grand Council (1951–1971) and bailiff von Charmey (1958–1969).

After attending the Burgschule and the Heilig Kreuz College in Freiburg, Marie Garnier obtained the Latin-Greek Matura in German in 1981 at the St. Michael College . After completing an agricultural apprenticeship in Peney-le-Jorat (VD) in 1982 , she studied agriculture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and completed her studies as an engineer agr. ETHZ. She then taught at the Agricultural Institute Grangeneuve (1988–1989) and was an employee, then authorized signatory of the branch of the Econat office (1989–1996). She was a member of numerous commissions, in particular the Federal Nature and Heritage Protection Commission (1992–1998) and the cantonal Environment, Nature and Landscape Protection Commission (1995–2011). From 1997 to 2011 she headed the Pro Natura Center Champ-Pittet and wrote numerous reports and brochures on environmental issues.

Marie Garnier not only campaigned for extracurricular support, but was also the Y + S manager for skiing, cross-country skiing and ski touring. She is the mother of two children.

politics

Her political career began in the Constitutional Council (2000-2004), to which she was elected on the open list . In 2006 she was elected to the municipal council of Villars-sur-Glâne on the social democratic list (the Greens did not yet have a local section) and in 2011 she was re-elected on the green list. Responsible for spatial planning, roads, traffic and the environment , she completed the revision of the local planning, in which green spaces are guaranteed, finished setting up the Tempo 30 zones, renovated part of the public lighting to save electricity, and fought against shopping centers , with which useless agricultural land is wasted, and created several pedestrian connections, including a path from Espace Nuithonie through Cormanon Park to the Beaumont district .

In the State Council elections in 2011, Marie Garnier was on a joint list of the left ( SP , CSP , Greens) and reached sixth place in the first ballot, in order to be the third of the left-wing candidates in front of the social democrat Xavier Ganioz and the Christian-social Pierre- Class Olivier Nobs. In the second ballot, she was able to improve her good result in fifth place. Marie Garnier took over the management of institutions and agriculture and forestry .

In autumn 2016, Marie Garnier was re-elected as State Councilor in the second ballot. After criticism, she resigned from this office on April 30, 2018. However, the allegation of breach of official secrecy was dropped in 2019. In the report of the extraordinary public prosecutor, Marie Garnier is acquitted of all guilt and it is pointed out that she acted to protect legitimate interests.

literature

• Georges Andrey , Hubertus von Gemmingen (translation): The Freiburg State Council: 1848–2011; History, organization, members . Ed .: John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand, Nicholas Gex. Paulus, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7228-0815-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Regional journal Bern Freiburg Wallis: SVP attack failed: Status quo in the Freiburg State Council. In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). Retrieved November 27, 2016 . 
2. ^ Regional journal Bern Freiburg Valais: SRF News: Freiburg State Councilor - Marie Garnier resigns: "That is no longer bearable" . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . ( srf.ch [accessed on November 9, 2017]).
3. ↑ Green Garnier is off the hook. sda, October 23, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 . 

Web links

• Profile on the website of the State Council of the Canton of Friborg