Petra Gössi

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Petra Gössi (2019)

Petra Gössi (born January 12, 1976 in Lucerne ; resident in Küssnacht SZ ) is a Swiss politician and lawyer . She has been a national councilor since 2011 and president of the FDP since 2016 .

biography

Petra Gössi in the group of party presidents on election day, October 20, 2019

Petra Gössi passed her Matura at the Immensee high school and studied law at the University of Bern . The lawyer completed a Master of Economic Crime Investigation degree at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and is a legal, tax and management consultant at Baryon AG in Zurich .

Gössi has been a member of the management team of the FDP, The Liberals of the Canton of Schwyz , since 2006 . In 2012 she took over the presidency from Vincenzo Pedrazzini and held this office until 2016.

From 2004 to 2011 she sat in the Cantonal Council of Schwyz (legislature), in which she served as FDP parliamentary leader from 2008. Gössi has been a member of the National Council since the parliamentary elections in 2011 . There she is a member of the National Council's Commission for Economy and Taxes (WAK). Before that, she was on the editorial committee, the legal committee, the finance committee and the judicial committee.

During the delegates' meeting of the FDP Liberal Switzerland on April 16, 2016, Gössi was elected party president of the national FDP without a dissenting vote. She took over the office from Philipp Müller . She was re-elected on March 24, 2018.

She lives in Küssnacht am Rigi in the canton of Schwyz.

Political positions

Gössi is committed to a federal and lean state in which people can think, work and live freely. She emphasizes personal responsibility. Petra Gössi has reformulated the FDP's stance on environmental and climate policy with a position paper that was created on the basis of a grassroots democratic discourse. She is skeptical about the federal government's financial support for culture. The fact that Gössi spoke out against the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in Switzerland caused a stir . However, she made it clear that observing human rights was a matter of course for her and that she was only bothered by the fact that the European Court of Human Rights was independently expanding its competencies. You do not stand behind the popular initiative “Land law before international law” of the SVP .

In relation to the European Union , Gössi represents the party line: She argues against joining the EU and in favor of vigorously defending the bilateral agreements , which are the “guarantor of the Swiss model of success”.

Gössi takes a more conservative view on socio-political issues. For example, she opposes the legalization of soft drugs and the permission for active euthanasia , but speaks out in favor of pilot experiments to test new forms of societal handling of cannabis use. She has abandoned her initially negative position on marriage and the adoption of stepchildren by same-sex couples and has since supported relevant concerns in parliament and the parliamentary initiative of Kathrin Bertschy , which wants to allow this.

Since her election as FDP party president in 2016, she has "centered". It represents a liberal and reform-oriented policy.

In June 2021, Gössi announced that he would resign as party president of the FDP by the end of 2021 at the latest. The reason she cited was the desire to concentrate on her actual job.

literature

Web links

Commons : Petra Gössi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Gössi is FDP President ( Memento from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 833 kB), Schwyzer Freisinn, June 1, 2012.
  2. ↑ Personnel: Successor to Petra Gössi as President of the FDP Schwyz . In: Lucerne newspaper . ( luzernerzeitung.ch [accessed on July 17, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Petra Gössi on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals ) . Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  4. ↑ Switzerland - Petra Gössi is the new FDP president . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . April 16, 2016 ( srf.ch [accessed September 6, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Müller surprisingly announces resignation as FDP president . In: Tages-Anzeiger . ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on September 6, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Michael Surber: Petra Gössi remains FDP president for another two years | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 26, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on September 6, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Petra Gössi's website , accessed on October 1, 2019.
  8. ↑ Viewpoints «Petra Gössi. Archived from the original ; accessed on July 17, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Christina Neuhaus: FDP-Basis supports Petra Gössi's climate course clearly | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed December 13, 2019]).
  10. ↑ a b Petra Gössi Smartvote questionnaire on the 2015 National Council election , quoted from votez.ch, accessed on February 15, 2016.
  11. ↑ Where is Petra Gössi? , Tages-Anzeiger of February 8, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2016.
  12. ↑ a b Ich will einmitten myself , NZZ from February 14, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2016.
  13. ↑ Why it is going to be difficult for Gössi , Bernese Oberland February 2, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2016.
  14. ↑ Official Bulletin. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Petra Gössi on the deportation of foreigners: "The SVP played a wrong game" , Blick from February 20, 2016, accessed on February 29, 2016.
  16. ↑ Voting on 14.094-1 ZGB. Adoption. Change: Swiss Civil Code (adoption). Swiss Parliament, May 30, 2016, accessed April 20, 2018 .
  17. ^ Parliamentary Initiative Marriage for All. Retrieved April 20, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Viktor Parma: A swallow goes for summer. Portrait, Republic of July 26, 2018.
  19. ↑ "It is good for politics when the SVP loses" . In: Switzerland at the weekend . ( schweizamwochenende.ch [accessed on September 6, 2018]).
  20. ↑ After the vote has been lost - FDP President Petra Gössi resigns at the end of the year at the latest. In: srf.ch. June 14, 2021, accessed June 14, 2021 .
predecessor Office successor
Philipp Mueller President of the FDP, the Liberals
since 2016 		-
personal data
SURNAME Gössi, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne