Giuseppe Lepori

Giuseppe Lepori ( born June 2, 1902 in Massagno; † 6 September 1968 Seravezza of Oggio, community Capriasca ) was a Swiss politician ( CVP).

He was elected to the Federal Council on 16 December 1954. On 31 December 1959, he handed over his office after he had announced his resignation on November 24. During his tenure, he stood before the postal and railway department.

He was Vice President of the Bundesrat in 1959.

Origin

Giuseppe Lepori was born in 1902 as the second- youngest of seven children in the Ticino site Massagno. His father ran a grocery store in Massagno firm and served in the communal executive and as a justice of the peace. Lepori studied law at the University of Freiburg and graduated in 1925 with a master's from. The following winter he spent in Munich in order to deepen his knowledge of the German language. 1926-1928 he worked with the Italian language daily newspaper Giornale del Popolo as an editor. 1927 Lepori was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Ticino, in 1940 he moved to the State Council ( the executive).

Election to the Federal

In the election on December 16, 1954 three seats needed to be filled. Karl Kobelt (FDP), Rodolphe Rubattel (FDP ) and Josef Escher ( CVP) left the Federal Council at the end of the year. The seat of Escher for the CVP (then Catholic - Conservative Party of Switzerland ) was undisputed, according to clearly Thomas Holenstein was chosen as his successor. As the successor of Rubattel Paul Chaudet (FDP) has been selected. In the election of the successor of Karl Kobelt the Socialists supported the candidate of the Catholic Conservatives Giuseppe Lepori. So they followed a confidential consultation with the Catholic Conservatives, to the establishment of the magic formula promised the Social Democrats in return at the next vacancy of the Free Democrats two seats. The FDP wanted to keep her seat and ported the Basel Alfred Schaller. Lepori was then selected in the second ballot with 128 valid 232 votes.

Activity as a Federal

Lepori took over the postal and railway department. In this role, his main attention was paid to the new mass medium of television. He reached that Parliament approved a first transition funding for the construction of infrastructure. The skeptics of the new technology he held out that a state-run television for the "spiritual, political and economic self-assertion " would be of central interest for Switzerland.

In addition, he was responsible for the new Railway Act, which was adopted by Parliament on 20 December 1957.

Withdrawal and other activities

In the summer of 1959 Lepori suffered a stroke. His condition then, although it improved again, but he handed in his resignation on November 24 and gave his resignation on reelection known. In 1960 he would become President on a rotating basis.

After his retirement from the Federal Lepori taught for several years at the University of Freiburg Public Law. He also worked as a President of a Commission of Jurists from the draft of a new constitution canton of Ticino, which was then accepted by the people on 29 October 1967.

He also led the negotiations between the Federal Council and the Holy See to the foundation of the new diocese of Lugano.