Pascal Corminboeuf

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Pascal Corminboeuf

Pascal Corminboeuf (born February 8, 1944 in Domdidier ) is a Swiss politician ( non-party ).

Life

Catholic, from Domdidier. His parents are Arthur, farmer, Ammann, justice of the peace and conservative councilor, and Marie-Thérèse nee. Chardonnens, housewife. He is the oldest of five children. In 1973 he married Anne-Michèle Lottaz. The couple have two children. A third child emerges from his association with Marie-Laurence Tâche.

Pascal Corminboeuf, to whom his father, autodidact and patois lover, gives the joy of the Broye dialect, attended primary school in Domdidier , secondary school in Estavayer-le-Lac (4 years) and the St. Michael College (4 years), which he graduated with the Latin-Greek Matura. He then taught as a deputy for a full-time year at the secondary school in Estavayer-le-Lac. From 1965 onwards he studied French, philology and history at the University of Freiburg for three years and continued to work as a teacher in order to earn a living.

In 1968 he turned to agriculture and took over his father's estate in Domdidier to support his father. As an anti-conformist who was remote from the established parties, he entered the political arena in 1969 when he and others founded the Mouvement d'action communale (MAC) of Domdidier. In the township elections of 1970 the movement achieved considerable success, gaining five seats out of 30 on the General Council and one seat on the Town Council. After its founder moved into the General Council in 1970, he became a local councilor in 1978 and worked as Ammann from 1991 to 1996.

Believing that his country could be served in anything other than uniform, he refused to take his fourth refresher course. In 1970 he was sentenced to six months in prison as a conscientious objector.

Still as a non-party, he applied for the senior office of the Broye district in 1991 . In 1996, what the press calls the “rural sage” ran for the Council of State and caused a surprise. In the first ballot on November 17, in which three candidates were elected, he was eighth of 13 places. In the second ballot, in which the remaining four seats were concerned, he came in second place with 50.3% of the votes and was thus elected.

Five years later, in 2001, the result was simply spectacular: he was the only one to be elected in the first ballot. For his third mandate in 2006, he was again elected, this time with two competitors, in the first ballot, with a total of 17 candidates applying for a seat.

In the Council of State, Pascal Corminboeuf took over the management of the interior and agriculture, which in 2002 became the director of institutions and agriculture and forestry. In his three terms of office he proved to be the author of the total revision of the cantonal constitution of 1857. On June 13, 1999, the people approved the principle of a complete renewal and decided not to entrust this to the Grand Council but to a constitutional council with 130 members. On March 12, 2000, the people elected the Constitutional Council, which was soon asked to be inspired for its work by the "idea booklets" of the Directorate of the Interior. On May 16, 2004, after four years of deliberations, the constitution was presented to the people, who approved it with 58% of the votes. Four months later, on July 17, the State Council appointed a steering committee to implement the Constitution.

Pascal Corminboeuf was also the driving force behind church mergers. From 1999, when the Grand Council passed the decree on the promotion of community mergers, until 2006 the number of Friborg communities fell from 245 to 168. The stated goal was to reduce this number to below 100 by 2016. For this purpose, a loan of around 50 million francs was planned, which the Grand Council passed in December 2010 and approved by the people on May 15, 2011 with 73% of the votes. The merger project of Grossfreiburg (six municipalities are affected) made difficult progress. The State Council also closely followed the progress of the agglomeration dossier, which was important for the entire canton.

Pascal Corminboeuf owes three important laws, those on forests and protection from natural disasters (1999), on hunting (2007) and on information and access to documents (2009). In 2011 he managed to convince the federal government to concentrate the activities of the Agroscope research station on Posieux.

Pascal Corminboeuf held various mandates at national level. He chaired the board of directors of the Swiss University of Agriculture in Zollikofen and the Swiss Association for the Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Federal Cooperation, in which he represented the Canton of Friborg.

On December 23, 2011, Pascal Corminboeuf, whose entire political career had taken place far from the beaten track, left the Council of State . At the end of his tenure in 2011, Corminboeuf resigned from his position.

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  1. ↑ http://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/alle-bisherigen-der-freiburger-regierung-bestaetigt-116918953
personal data
SURNAME Corminboeuf, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (independent)
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Domdidier , Switzerland