Margrith von Felten | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Member of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt | |
| In office 2001–2007 | |
| Member of the National Council | |
| In office 1991–1998 | |
| Member of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt | |
| In office 1988–1991 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 December 1944 Basel,Basel-Stadt, Switzerland |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party (formerly) Basels starke Alternative (current) |
| Children | 2 |
| Occupation | politician,lawyer |
Margrith von Felten (born 30 December 1944) is a Swiss politician and lawyer.
Margrith von Felten was born on 30 December 1944 in Basel. She holds citizenship in Basel,Winznau,and Stein.
Von Felten works as a lawyer. [1] From 1988 to 1991,she represented the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland in the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt. [2] In the 1991 Swiss federal election,she was elected to the National Council of Switzerland. [2] [3] She sat in the National Council until 1998 when she left the Swiss Democrats and joined the Basels Starke Alternative due to political differences in economic policy with the former. She ran on a joint left-green-feminist list in the 1998 general election but lost. From 2001 to 2007,she served again on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt. [2]
Von Felten is widowed and has two children.
Basel,also known as Basle,is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city,with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. The official language of Basel is Swiss Standard German and the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect.
Basel-Stadt or Basel-City is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of three municipalities with Basel as the capital. It is traditionally considered a "half-canton",the other half being Basel-Landschaft,its rural counterpart.
Felten is the surname of:
Kurds in Switzerland are residents in Switzerland of full or partial Kurds origin. The Kurds in Switzerland mainly reside in the Cantons of Zurich,Aargau and Basel-Stadt and are descendants of migrants of refugees from the regions around Pazarcık,Kahraranmaraşor Erzincan. There are also shia kurdish migrants from Iranian Kurdistan,the region around Ilam and Kermanshah along with Feyli Kurds from Baghdad who mainly reside Geneva and Zürich
Women in Switzerland gained the right to vote in federal elections after a referendum in February 1971. The first federal vote in which women were able to participate was the 31 October 1971 election of the Federal Assembly. However it was not until a 1990 decision by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland that women gained full voting rights in the final Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.
Eric Michael Weber is a Swiss populist publisher,journalist,and far-right politician. He currently serves his third term as a member of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt for his independent VA,which is his own political movement without any other members.
Sibel Arslan is a Turkish-born Swiss lawyer and politician who currently serves on the National Council (Switzerland) for the movement BastA!. There she concurrently also is a representative to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2020. She previously served on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt between 2005 and 2016.
Conradin Cramer is a Swiss politician. He has been a member of the cantonal government of Basel-Stadt since 8 February 2017.
Susanne Leutenegger Oberholzer is a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. She was a National Councillor from 1987 to 1991,then again from 1999 to 2018.
Gertrud Spiess was a Swiss politician of the Christian Democratic People's Party. She was a member of the National Council from 1975 to 1983.
Mustafa Atici is a Turkish-born Swiss businessman and politician who currently serves as member of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt since 2024 for the Social Democratic Party. He previously served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 2019 to 2023 and on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt from 2005 to 2019.
Beat Jans is a Swiss environmental scientist and politician who currently serves as a member of the Federal Council,after being elected in 2023 to succeed Alain Berset,assuming office on 1 January 2024. A member of the Social Democratic Party,he previously served on the National Council from 2010 to 2020,and president of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt from 2021 to 2023.
Eva Herzog is a Swiss politician who has represented Basel-Stadt in the Council of States since 2019 and has served as the President of the Council since 2023. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS).
Sarah Wyss is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Since December 2020 she is a member of the National Council of Switzerland.
Anita Fetz is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a former member of the National Council and the Council of States in Switzerland.
Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger was a Swiss jurist,university lecturer,judge and a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP). She was elected the first female judge of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland.
Katja Christ is a Swiss lawyer and politician. She was elected to the Swiss National Council on the ticket of Green Liberal Party (GLP) in 2019.
Patricia Caroline Manuela von Falkenstein is a Swiss jurist,judge and politician who currently serves as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) for the Liberal-Democratic Party since 2021. She previously served as a member of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt between 2006 and 2020.
Christoph Eymann is a Swiss attorney and former politician who served two terms on the Swiss National Council for the Liberal-Democratic Party from 1991 to 2001 and from 2015 to 2021. His most recent term was succeeded by his former domestic partner and mother of his children,Patricia von Falkenstein. He is also a former member of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt. Since 2019,Eymann serves as president of Schweizerische Konferenz für Sozialhilfe (SKOS). He is the father of Annina von Falkenstein,who currently serves on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt.
Fina Girard is a Swiss climate activist and politician who has served on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt since 2023. A member of the Green Party and the Young Greens,she represents the Grossbasel-West constituency. Prior to entering politics,she was a member of the Basel climate strike and was co-president of the local branch of the Young Greens.