Suzette Sandoz

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Suzette Sandoz (2014)

Suzette Sandoz (born January 12, 1942 in Lausanne ; resident in Le Locle , La Chaux-de-Fonds and Lausanne) is a Swiss lawyer and politician ( LPS ). She was the first full professor at the University of Lausanne and a national councilor for the canton of Vaud .

Life

Origin and occupation

Suzette Sandoz is the daughter of a professional soldier. She studied law. During her studies in the 1960s she was anti-communist. After coming into contact with left-wing groups, she founded the anti-communist university magazine “Un action”. In 1962 she traveled to the Communist World Youth Meeting in Helsinki to distribute counter-propaganda. After graduating, she was a housewife and mother. Her husband, a lawyer and politician, died in 1980 after a serious illness. Shortly before his death, a professor friend brought her to work as an assistant at the University of Lausanne. Ten years later she became the first woman to become a full professor there. From 2002 to 2004 she was dean of the law faculty.

Political career

Sandoz was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud from 1986 to 1991 . From 1991 to 1998 she was a member of the National Council.

During this time, she earned the reputation of an anti-feminist. She fought the revision of marriage law, protection against dismissal for pregnant women, the creation of equality offices and the equality law. In her opinion, equality between men and women has been achieved since the introduction of women's suffrage, with the exception of the retirement age, where she advocated an increase to 65 years for women. She is quoted as saying: "Gender must not be a criterion, except for marriage." In accordance with this understanding of marriage, she also rejects the extension of marriage to same-sex couples.

In 1992, she was among the few opponents of the EEA -Beitritts in Romandie . She was co-president of the referendum committee, but at the same time marked distance from Christoph Blocher . She also advocated a restrictive drug policy . She was a member of the initiative committee of the people's initiative “Youth without drugs” as co-president and also fought against the medically prescribed heroin distribution .

In 1998 she resigned from the National Council prematurely. Her successor was Marguerite Florio .

Even after she left the National Council, she continued to express herself on political issues and became involved in initiative committees and referendum battles. From 2002 to 2011 she wrote a column for NZZ am Sonntag . In 2006 she was one of the bourgeois opponents of the revision of the Asylum and Aliens Act. She was also a member of the initiative committee of the popular initiative «Protection against sexualization in kindergarten and primary school», which was launched in 2012 and withdrawn in 2015.

Works

  • Suzette Sandoz: Une voix claire dans la foule . Editions Cabédita, Bière 2013, ISBN 978-2-88295-662-0 (columns from the NZZ on Sunday 2002–2011).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catherine Duttweiler: With legal subtleties against one's own gender . In: Sunday newspaper . March 13, 1994.
  2. ↑ Jean-Blaise Besençon: Suzette Sandoz: "Membre d'un parti à 18 ans? Je suis épouvantée ». In: L'Illustré . April 4, 2019, accessed July 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Suzette Sandoz on the website of the Federal Assembly ( proposals submitted )
  4. ↑ Catherine Duttweiler: With legal subtleties against one's own gender . In: Sunday newspaper . March 13, 1994.
  5. ↑ Catherine Duttweiler: With legal subtleties against one's own gender . In: Sunday newspaper . March 13, 1994.
  6. ↑ Rinaldo Tibolla: Marriage is dead - marriages live long . In: Southeastern Switzerland . June 25, 2014, p. 20 .
  7. ↑ Denise Lachat: The Röstigraben is a gap that is slowly closing . In: Southeastern Switzerland . December 6, 2012, p. 17 .
  8. ↑ Fredy Haemmerli: The strict daughter of the colonel . In: Cash . September 4, 1992, p. 37 .
  9. ↑ Marianne Benteli: Selected contributions to Swiss politics: popular initiatives "for a sensible drug policy / tabula rasa with the drug mafia" and "youth without drugs" (Droleg initiative), 1991-1998. In: Année Politique Suisse. Institute for Political Science, University of Bern, accessed on August 6, 2020 . clb .: Heroin distribution to the people . In: The Bund . December 1, 1998, p. 17 .
  10. ↑ M. Rosenberg: Trix Heberlein takes over the presidency . In: NZZ . October 24, 1998, p. 14 .
  11. ↑ Seraina Gross: The other voice of French-speaking Switzerland . In: Basler Zeitung . February 22, 2014, p. 4 . Suzette Sandoz: Une voix claire dans la foule . Editions Cabédita, Bière 2013, ISBN 978-2-88295-662-0 , pp. 6 .
  12. ↑ Richard Diethelm: Are Romands really more tolerant of foreigners? In: Tages-Anzeiger . September 7, 2006, p. 5 .
  13. ↑ Seraina Gross: The other voice of French-speaking Switzerland . In: Basler Zeitung . February 22, 2014, p. 4 . Federal Chancellery: Federal popular initiative 'Protection against sexualization in kindergarten and primary school'. In: Federal Chancellery. August 5, 2020, accessed August 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sandoz, Suzette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne