Simonetta Sommaruga

Simonetta Sommaruga ( born May 14, 1960 in train, full name Simonetta Sommaruga Myriam, hometown entitled in Lugano and Eggiwil ) is a Swiss politician (SP) and since 1 January 2014 for one year Vice- President of the Swiss Confederation.

Since November 2010 she is Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FOJ ). On December 4, 2013 Sommaruga was elected with 180 of 205 votes valid as vice president in 2014.

Life

Sommaruga grew up with two brothers and a sister in Sins, Canton of Aargau, on. She attended high school in Immensee, Schwyz, and concluded with the Matura. She then formed in Lucerne, California and Rome from the pianist. From 1988 to 1991 she studied English and Romance Languages ​​at the University of Freiburg, but without a degree.

Starting point for her political career was her work as Executive Director of the Foundation for Consumer Protection, which she practiced from 1993 to 1999 and they publicly made ​​known in German-speaking Switzerland. She was president of the Foundation for Consumer Protection and the development organization Swissaid.

From 1998 to 2005 Sommaruga served on the council ( executive) of Köniz, where he was head of the fire brigade and civil protection. From the elections of 1999 and 2003, she was the National Council. As of the 2003 elections she served on the Council of States.

She was elected at the by-election for Moritz Leuenberger with 159 votes in the fourth ballot to the Federal Council on 22 September 2010. With their choice of four women were represented at the same time in the Swiss Federal Council for the first time. On December 14, 2011, she was confirmed in office.

After the massacre in Norway, the head of the EJPDs continued to ensure that the Internet traffic coming from suspicious person at his request in real time can be monitored by the competent investigating authorities preventively.

Sommaruga is married to the writer Lukas Hartmann ( pseudonym for Hans -Rudolf Lehmann) and lives in Spiegel bei Bern.

Publications

  • Belts manifesto for a new and advanced SP policy (Henri Huber, Tobias Kästli, Wolf Linder ). Belts, May 10, 2001; Document online (PDF, 236 kB)
  • For a modern Switzerland. A practical reform plan (edited with H. Rudolf Strahm ). Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-312-00356-3
Swiss people Swiss federal election, 1999 Swiss federal election, 2003 Federal Council (Switzerland) Real-time Federal Assembly (Switzerland) List of members of the Swiss Federal Council Alain Berset Didier Burkhalter Doris Leuthard Ueli Maurer Henri Druey Jonas Furrer Jakob Dubs Fridolin Anderwert Emil Welti Adolf Deucher Ernst Brenner Robert Comtesse Josef Anton Schobinger Ludwig Forrer Arthur Hoffmann (politician) Camille Decoppet Johannes Baumann Eduard von Steiger Markus Feldmann Friedrich Traugott Wahlen Ludwig von Moos Kurt Furgler Rudolf Friedrich Arnold Koller Christoph Blocher Integrated Authority File
730888
de