Payerne is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the seat of the district of Payerne,and is now part of the district of Broye-Vully. The German name Peterlingen for the town is out of use.
Charles-Louis Rochat is a Swiss politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and served in the Conseil d'État of Vaud from 1998 to 2007.
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.
Pierre-Yves Maillard is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party. He was successively a deputy for the canton of Vaud on the National Council,a member of the Council of State of Vaud at the head of the department of health and social action,again national advisor and advisor to the states since the end of 2023.
Pierre Hemmer,born on March 8,1950 in Fribourg and died on June 26,2013 in Mons (Var),was a business leader and executive of the Swiss Confederation,active in particular in the field of the Internet. In 1995,he was,with his firm M&Cnet,the only public service provider in the Canton of Fribourg and many other parts of Switzerland.
Isabelle Moret is a Swiss politician who served as President of the National Council from 2019 to 2020. A member of FDP.The Liberals since its foundation in 2009,she first entered the National Council in 2006 as a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD). Moret is a resident of Yens-sur-Morges in the canton of Vaud.
Payerne railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Payerne,in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is located at the junction of the standard gauge Fribourg–Yverdon and Palézieux–Lyss lines of Swiss Federal Railways.
Valérie Piller Carrard is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a current member of the National Council.
Farida Benyahia is an Algerian magistrate and president of the Council of State of Algeria.
An election for all seven members of the Federal Council,the Government of Switzerland,was held on 11 December 2019,following the federal election on 20 October 2019,for the 2020–2024 term.
Fabienne Fischer,born in 1961 in Zambia,is a lawyer and Swiss politician,a member of the Green Party of Switzerland,elected at the Council of State by-elections for the canton of Geneva on 21 March 2021. In charge of the Department of Economy and Employment,she lost her seat in the election in 2023 to Social-Democratic candidate Carol-Anne Kast.
Géraldine Savary is a journalist and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP),former member of the National Council and the Council of States and the current director of the Federal Commission of the Swiss postal services,PostCom.
Léonore Porchet,is a Swiss politician. A member of the Green Party of Switzerland,Porchet has represented Vaud canton in the National Council since the 2019 Swiss federal election.
A by-election to the Swiss Federal Council was held on 20 September 2017,after federal councillor Didier Burkhalter (FDP-NE) announced he would leave the Council effective 31 October 2017. The by-election resulted in the election of Ignazio Cassis (FDP-TI),resulting in no change in the partisan composition of the council.
By-elections to the Swiss Federal Council were held on 7 December 2022,after federal councillors Ueli Maurer (SVP-ZH) and Simonetta Sommaruga (SP-BE) announced they would leave the Council effective 31 December of the same year. The parliament elected Albert Rösti and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider respectively to replace them.
An election for all seven members of the Federal Council,Switzerland's government,were held on 13 December 2023 for the 2024–2028 term. It followed the federal election held a month earlier and partly depended on its results.
Pierre-AndréPage is a Swiss farmer and politician. He currently serves as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) for the Swiss People's Party since 2015. He previously served on the Grand Council of Fribourg between 1996 and 2015,in 2009 as its president.
Jacqueline Denise de Quattro is a Swiss-Italian politician,lawyer,and former judoka. As a member of the FDP.The Liberals,she was elected to the Council of State of Vaud in 2007. In 2019,she was elected to a seat in the National Council of Switzerland.
Nuria Gorrite is a Swiss-Spanish politician and museum curator. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland,she was the first woman to be elected President of the Council of State of Vaud.
