The government of Switzerland is a federal state with direct democracy.
Ruth Dreifuss is a Swiss economist,unionist and politician who served as a member of the Federal Council (Switzerland) from 1993 to 2002. She served as Vice President of Switzerland in 1998 and as President of Switzerland in 1999 for the Social Democratic Party.
Appenzell Innerrhoden,in English sometimes Appenzell Inner-Rhodes,is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of six districts. The seat of the government and parliament is Appenzell. It is traditionally considered a "half-canton",the other half being Appenzell Ausserrhoden.
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland is the supreme court of the Swiss Confederation and at the head of the Swiss judiciary.
The Green Liberal Party of Switzerland,abbreviated to GLP,is a centrist green-liberal political party in Switzerland. Founded in 2007,the party holds eleven seats in the Federal Assembly as of the October 2023 election.
Lilian Uchtenhagen was a Swiss politician and economist. She was one of the ten first women elected to the National Council,the Swiss Parliament's house and first women to be a candidate to the Federal Council,the Government of Switzerland.
Karin Keller-Sutter is a Swiss politician who has served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2019. A member of FDP.The Liberals,she is the head of the Federal Department of Finance. Keller-Sutter previously served as President of the Council of States for the 2017–2018 term,and has served as vice president of Switzerland for the 2024 term since 1 January.
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.
Regula Rytz is a Swiss historian and politician of the Green Party of Switzerland. She was a member of the National Council from 2011 to 2022. From 2012 to 2016,she was the co-president of the Green Party of Switzerland. She was the party president from 2016 to 2020.
Vera Rottenberg Liatowitsch,née Vera Rottenberg is a Swiss retired judge. She served on the Swiss Federal Supreme Court from 1994 to 2012 and was the second woman elected to the country's highest court.
Yves Rüedi is a Judge of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland.
Viola Patricia Amherd is a Swiss politician who has served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2019,and as President of the Swiss Confederation for 2024 since 1 January. She is the head of the Federal Department of Defence,Civil Protection and Sport. Amherd was a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC) before it merged with the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD) to form The Centre (DM/LC) in 2021,which she joined.
The Association of Swiss Hemp Friends,better known as Verein Schweizer Hanf-freunde (VSFH) or ASAC,is an organization situated at St Gallen,Switzerland known for its activities towards legalization of free cultivation,consumption,personal,medicinal usage and commercial exchange of hemp unrelated to any narcotic usage. The organization is also known to advocate the farming of hemp plants by providing supports to the farmers and peasants as the efforts to make agricultural usage of hemp sustainable under prevailing governmental regulations about cannabis usage.
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 22 October 2023 to elect all members of the National Council and Council of States. The elections were followed by elections to the Federal Council,Switzerland's government and collegial presidency,on 13 December.
Judith Stamm was a Swiss jurist and politician of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP). She was seen as an influential women's rights activist.
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.
Brigitte Häberli-Koller is a Swiss politician of the party The Centre. She is a former member of the National Council and a current of the Council of States of which she served as its president from 2022 to 2023.
Esther Barbara Friedli is a Swiss politician who currently serves on the Council of States (Switzerland) on 30 April 2023 and assumed office on 30 May 2023. She previously served on the National Council (Switzerland) for the Swiss People's Party since 2019. She is the domestic partner of Toni Brunner,former president of the Swiss People's Party and also a member of the National Council. Between 2008 and 2014,Friedli served as the secretary general of the Department of Education of the Canton of St. Gallen.
Susanne Vincenz stylized Vincenz-Stauffacher is a Swiss attorney,notary public and politician. She currently serves as member of the National Council (Switzerland) for The Liberals since 2019. Since 2020,Vincenz is the president of The Liberals Women Switzerland. She previously served on the Cantonal Council of St. Gallen for the St. Gallen constituency from 2018 to 2020. In 2022,she was briefly nominated for the seat in the Council of States (Switzerland) which was later accepted by Esther Friedli.
