Eva Herzog (born 25 December 1962) is a Swiss politician who has represented

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in the Council of States since

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. She is a member of the

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(SP/PS).

Education

Between 1981 and 1988 she studied

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and

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at the University in Basel and

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and graduated with a MSc in 1988. She obtained a in History in 1994.

Professional career

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

Political career

She was elected in to the

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in 2001 and in 2003 she assumed the presidency of the SP group in the Grand Council. She remained a member of the Grand Council until 2005, when she assumed as a member of the

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and onwards headed the finance department. In May 2019, she announced that she would resign as a State Council of Basel in January 2020. In October 2019 she was elected to the Council of States. As she was a candidate for both the Council of State and the National Council, Mustafa Atici assumed her post in the National Council. In 2010 she was a candidate for the Federal Council as a successor for the resigning Moritz Leuenberger. But in the elections

Simonetta Sommaruga Simonetta Myriam Sommaruga (born 14 May 1960) is a Swiss politician who has served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2010. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), she was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2015 and 202 ...

was elected. After in November 2022 Simmonetta Sommaruga announced her resignation, she and Elisabeth Baume-Schneider became the candidate for Sommarug's succession. On the 7 December Baume-Schneider was

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to the Federal Council and a week later Eva Herzog to the Vice-Presidency to the Council of States.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Herzog, Eva Swiss politicians Members of the National Council (Switzerland) 1962 births Social Democratic Party of Switzerland politicians Living people University of Basel alumni University of Santiago de Compostela alumni People from Basel-Landschaft