"President of Switzerland" Doris Leuthard Signed 9X8.25 Color for Sale

"President of Switzerland" Doris Leuthard Signed 9X8.25 Color For Sale

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Up for sale the "President of Switzerland" Doris Leuthard Hand Signed 9X8.25 Color Photo.

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Doris

Leuthard (born 10 April 1963)

is a Swiss politician and lawyer who served as a Member of the

Swiss Federal Council from 2006 to 2018. A member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC), she was

elected as President of the

Swiss Confederation for 2010 and 2017. Leuthard headed

the Federal Department of Economic Affairs until 2010, when

she became head of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications.

As of 19 December 2019 she is a member of the board of the Kofi Annan Foundation. Leuthard

was a member of the Swiss National Council from

1999 to 2006 for the canton of Aargau. She presided over the Christian Democratic People's Party from 2004 to 2006. Following

the resignation of Joseph Deiss from the Swiss Federal Council,

Leuthard was elected as his successor on 14 June 2006. She received 133 out of

234 valid votes to become the 109th Federal Councillor. She is the fifth woman

elected to the Federal Council. Her election represented a departure from a

long precedent of replacing a Member of the Federal Council with someone from

the same language group. While Deiss was a French speaker, Leuthard is a German

speaker. From 1 August 2006 until 31 October 2010, she was head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs. On 1 November 2010 she

became head of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Leuenberger. For

the calendar year 2009, Leuthard was elected Vice President of the Swiss

Confederation, virtually assuring her election as President of the

Confederation for the calendar year 2010. Due to a large amount

of turnover on the Federal Council in recent years, she was the longest-serving

Federal Councillor not to have served as the body's president. She was

elected President of the Confederation for 2010 and 2017. She

became the third woman to hold the post, after Ruth Dreifuss (1999) and Micheline Calmy-Rey (2007).

As President of the Confederation, Leuthard presided over meetings of the

Federal Council and carried out representative functions that would normally be

handled by a head of state in other democracies

(though in Switzerland, the Federal Council as a whole is regarded as the head

of state). She was also the highest-ranking official in the Swiss order of precedence and

had the power to act on behalf of the whole Federal Council in emergency

situations. However, in most cases, Leuthard was merely primus inter pares,

with no power above and beyond her six colleagues. She was succeeded by

Calmy-Rey in 2011, the first time two women held the office in succession.

Following a reshuffle of portfolios after the by-election of

two new Federal Councillors in 2010, Leuthard replaced

outgoing Moritz Leuenberger at

the head of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications. In

her capacity as minister, she was appointed by United Nations Secretary

General António Guterres in

2018 to the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, co-chaired by Melinda Gates and Jack Ma. The project SAFFA 2020 is under the patronage of the three

Federal Councillors: Leuthard, Simonetta Sommaruga and Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf,

as well as by the former Federal Councillor Calmy-Rey