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Eva Herzog

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Eva Herzog
Official portrait, 2019
President of the Council of States
In office
4 December 2023 – 2 December 2024
Preceded byBrigitte Häberli-Koller
Succeeded byAndrea Caroni
Member of the Council of States
for Basel-Stadt
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 December 2019
Preceded byAnita Fetz
Member of the State Council of Basel-Stadt
In office
1 February 2005 – 31 January 2020
Preceded byUeli Vischer
Succeeded byTanja Soland
Personal details
Born25 December 1961 (1961-12-25) (age 63)
Basel, Switzerland
Political partySocial Democratic Party
EducationHistory
Alma materUniversity of Basel
Websiteevaherzog.ch

Eva Herzog (born 25 December 1961)[1] is a Swiss politician who has represented the Basel-Stadt canton in the Council of States since 2019 and served as President of the Council in 2023–2024. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS).

Education

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Between 1981 and 1988, she studied History, Economics and Spanish at the University in Basel and University of Santiago de Compostela and graduated with a MSc in 1988. She obtained a Doctorate degree [de] in History in 1994.[2]

Professional career

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Between 1995 and 2000, she held a leading position in the management of the Artspace Kaserne [de] in Basel.[2] From 2001 until 2004, she was employed as a scientific collaborator at the University of Basel.[2]

Political career

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She was elected in to the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt in 2001[3] and in 2003, she assumed the presidency of the SP group in the Grand Council.[4] She remained a member of the Grand Council until 2005,[2] when she assumed as a member of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt and onwards headed the finance department.[5]

In May 2019, she announced that she would resign as a State Council of Basel in January 2020.[5] In October 2019 she was elected to the Council of States.[6] As she was a candidate for both the Council of State and the National Council, Mustafa Atici assumed her post in the National Council.[7]

In 2010, she was a candidate for the Federal Council[8] as a successor for the resigning Moritz Leuenberger.[9] But in the elections Simonetta Sommaruga was elected.[10]

After in November 2022, Simmonetta Sommaruga announced her resignation,[11] she and Elisabeth Baume-Schneider became the candidate for Sommarug's succession.[12] On the 7 December, Baume-Schneider was elected to the Federal Council and a week later Eva Herzog to the Vice-Presidency to the Council of States.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Switzerland | Council of States". IPU Parline: global data on national parliaments. IPU.
  2. ^ a b c d "Eva Herzog". SP Basel-Stadt (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Wahl- und Abstimmungsergebnisse (Archiv)". www.staatskanzlei.bs.ch (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Eva Herzog kandidiert – Claude Janiak verzichtet". www.onlinereports.ch (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Basler Finanzdirektorin Eva Herzog hört Ende Januar 2020 auf". bz - Zeitung für die Region Basel (in Swiss High German). 20 May 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Glanzresultat - Eva Herzog ist neue Basler Ständerätin". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 20 October 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  7. ^ "Artikel Detail". Radio X (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  8. ^ "Eine Basler Kandidatur für den Bundesrat | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  9. ^ "Zürcher SP-Nationalrätin Jacqueline Fehr will Bundesrätin werden". SWI swissinfo.ch (in German). 26 August 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  10. ^ "Simonetta Sommaruga ist gewählt | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  11. ^ Biner, David (3 November 2022). "Bundesrat: Simonetta Sommaruga tritt per Ende Jahr zurück". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  12. ^ a b "Eva Herzog beerbt Elisabeth Baume-Schneider im Ständeratspräsidium". SWI swissinfo.ch (in German). 14 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
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