Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter | |
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| Member of the National Council of Switzerland | |
| Assumed office November 2010 | |
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| Born | 19 February 1964 |
| Party | Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland |
Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter (born 19 February 1964, Basel) is a Swiss jurist and politician of The Centre (formerly known as the Christian Democratic People's Party). [1]
She has been a member of the parliament of the Canton Basel-Landschaft since 1999, [1] over which she also presided in the term between 2006 and 2007. [2] In November 2010, she replaced the resigning Kathrin Amacker in the National Council. [3] She was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). [4]
At the party conference of the CVP Baselland in October 2018, Schneider-Schneiter was nominated as a candidate for the successor of Doris Leuthard in the Federal Council. [5] She would have been the first Federal Councillor from the Basel Landschaft in 123 years. [5] However, the CVP later decided to present a two-person ticket with the National Councilor Viola Amherd of Canton Valais and the councilor of Uri Heidi Z’graggen for the Federal Council election. [6] Eventually, Viola Amherd was elected into the Federal Council. [7] In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2019, Schneider-Schneiter was re-elected to the National Council rather comfortably as the CVP entered the elections within a political alliance with the Green Liberal Party (GLP) and the Evangelical People's Party (EVP). [8]
Schneider-Schneiter is the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Basel and a member of the Board of Directors in the Economiesuisse. [9] She is also a Member of the Board at Primeo Energy [10] and the President of the European Youth Choir Festival. [11]
She lives is married and has two children. [12] Living in Biel-Benken, her places of origin are Basel, Lenzburg and Schwendibach. [1]