Raphaël Rimaz

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Raphaël Rimaz

Raphaël Rimaz (born June 26, 1943 in Estavayer-le-Lac ; † May 23, 2017 ) was a Swiss politician ( SVP ) and State Councilor of the canton of Friborg .

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Rimaz, Catholic by nature, came from Ponthaux . His parents were Arnold Rimaz, farmer, and Marguerite nee. Marchon. In 1968 he married Isabelle Marty. The couple had four children.

A farmer by profession, Raphaël Rimaz was General Councilor in Domdidier from 1982 to 1986 . In 1986 he was elected to the local council as representative of the Mouvement d'action communale (MAC). That same year this mandate was interrupted by Rimaz's election to the State Council.

As a member of the Broye District, Raphaël Rimaz sat on the Grand Council from 1981 to 1986 . He drew attention to himself with numerous advances in favor of agriculture, including those for families who were threatened with expulsion from their farms, but also for lowering the age of eligibility for the Grand Council to 20 years, for the consideration of parties that were voted in the Grand Council elections unable to show an elected representative for the first allocation of seats, as well as for better representation of women in the cantonal commissions. He headed the commission that had to examine the draft revision of the law on the preservation of rural property. In addition, he was president of the cantonal BGB-SVP from 1975 to 1987.

In 1986 he was elected to the Council of State in the second ballot against the liberal Gérard Ducarroz, of which he was a member until 1996 and of which he was president in 1992. He headed the judicial, police and military directorates.

Although the judiciary, police and military directorate was not his desire Directorate, he submitted to Parliament in his two terms in office a number of important legislative reforms before, including the law on compulsory insurance of movable property against fire (1988), lifting the Cantonal Military Justice (1988) , the long-promised revised law on the cantonal police (1990), the law on restaurants (1991), the law on gaming machines and gaming rooms (1994), the implementing law to the federal law on data protection (1994), the law on exercise des Handels (1995), the Bellechasse Asylums Act (1996), the Act on the Fund to Combat Drug Addiction (1996) and the reform of the Civil and Criminal Procedure Code, which, among other things, set out the main rights and obligations of prisoners and the coercive measures are specified (1996). He was also responsible for the autonomous status of the Office for Road Traffic and Shipping, which enabled a modernized and financially more attractive administration for the state. He also ensured the adoption of a decree on the financing of the command and training building of the Poya barracks in Freiburg (1989). During his ten-year tenure, he was President of the Cantonal Building Insurance (KGV).

His participation in a rally in 1988 in favor of a Turkish asylum seeker who had been settled for a long time and was well integrated in his job earned him a lot of public sympathy.

Because of his commitment to the peasantry, he ran for the National Council in 1979, 1983 and 1995 . In 1983 he was the second successor, while Joseph Cottet was elected. In 1995 he took first place on the list, but his party did not get a seat. He was also a judge at Broye District Court. In 2006 and 2011 he did not succeed in being elected to the municipal council of Domdidier. He wanted to do his community a service. He will be remembered as a “righteous, diligent and humane magistrate”, as was stated in the Liberté after his brilliant re-election in 1991. In 2013 he returned to active politics, after he moved up to the local council of Domdidier due to a vacancy for the SVP.

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  1. ↑ L'ancien conseiller d'Etat Raphaël Rimaz est décédé. In: laliberte.ch. May 23, 2017, accessed May 23, 2017 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Rimaz, Raphaël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and State Councilor for the Canton of Friborg
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Estavayer-le-Lac , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 23 May 2017