1992 in Switzerland

Chronology of Switzerland

1991 in Switzerland - 1992 in Switzerland - 1993 in Switzerland

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Government in January 1st, 1992

Rene Felber PS, president of the Confederation
Adolf Ogi UDC, vice-president of the Confederation
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz PRD
Arnold Koller PDC
Flavio Cotti PDC,
Otto Stich PS
Kaspar Villiger PRD

Events

January

Thursday January 9th

: 40000 peasants express with Bern, Lucerne and Weinfelden to protest against the agreements of GATT.

Sunday January 19th

Cantonal elections with Basle-City. Christoph Stutz (PDC), Jörg Schild (PRD), Karl Schnyder (Left social democrat) and Hans-Rudolf Striebel (PRD) are elected with the Council of State at the time of the 1st ballot.

Wednesday January 29th

Death of the sergeant Jean-Louis Jeanmaire.

February

Sunday February 16th

federal Votings. The people reject, by: 1195550 not (60,7%) against: 772995 yes (39,3%), the popular initiative for a financially bearable health insurance .
federal Votings. The people reject, by: 1117236 not (56,4%) against: 864898 yes (43,6%), the popular initiative for a strict and progressive reduction of the experiments on the animals .
Cantonal elections in Thurgovie. Hermann Bürgi (UDC), Hanspeter Fischer (UDC), Ulrich Schmidli (PS), Philipp Stähelin (PDC) and Hermann Lei (PRD) are elected with the Council of State at the time of the 1st ballot.
Cantonal elections with Saint-Gall. Hans Rohrer (PS), Karl Mätzler (PDC), Walter Kägi (PDC), Burkhard Vetsch (PRD), Peter Schönenberger (PRD), Alex Oberholzer (PDC) and Hans Ulrich Stöclkling (PRD) are elected with the Council of State at the time of the 1st ballot.
complementary Election in Were worth. Serge Sierro (PRD) is elected with the Valaisan Government to replace Bernard Comby (PRD), resigner.
Cantonal elections with Basle-City. Ulrich Vischer (PLS), Veronica Schaller (PS) and Mathias Feldges (PS) are elected with the Council of State at the time of the 2nd ballot.

Wednesday February 19th

: 10000 Genevese civils servant take part in a disengaging to protest against a limitation of the indexing of the wages and a possible reduction of the manpower of the canton.

March

Tuesday March 10th

the French mountaineer Catherine Destivelle makes a success of the first female rise as a recluse of the northern face of the Eiger.

Saturday March 21st

: 6000 people express with Bern against racism and xenophobia, with the call of the Forum against racism .

Friday March 27th

Inauguration, after its restoration, of the castle Castelgrande with Bellinzone.

Monday March 30th

Founded by various organizations of mutual aid, the foundation Max Havelaar - Swiss from now on a license grants to the distribution companies which wish to launch out in the equitable trade of the coffee.

April

Sunday April 5th

Cantonal elections in the canton of Uri. The seven elected officials with the Council of State are Ambros Gisler (PDC), Anton Stadelmann (PDC), Hansruedi Stadler (PDC), Martin Furrer (PDC), Carlo Dittli (PRD), Peter Mattli (PRD) and Alberik Ziegler (PS).
Cantonal elections with Schwytz. Franz Marty (PDC) and Margrit Weber (PDC) were re-elected with the Council of State at the time of the 1st ballot.

Saturday April 11th

For the ninth time of its history, the CP Bern becomes champion of Switzerland of hockey-on-ice.

Sunday April 26th

Cantonal elections with Schwytz. Egon Bruhin (PRD), Richard Wyrsch (PS), Richard Camenzind (PRD), Werner Inderbitzin (PDC) and Oskar Kälin (PDC) were elected with the Council of State at the time of the 2nd ballot.

May

Sunday May 3rd

Switzerland and the European Union sign an agreement on the transit maintaining the limit of the 28 tons for the heavy trucks circulating on the Swiss roads. Switzerland commits itself to create a corridor of Piggyback traffic quickly and carrying out the new railway transversals alpine.

Monday May 4th

Death, with Neuchâtel, of the historian and polemist French Henri Guillemin.

Friday May 8th

Collision enters a transporting train of the cars and a railcar parks Goppenstein on the line of the Railroad of Lötschberg. A person loses the life.

Sunday May 17th

federal Votings. The people approve, by: 923685 yes (55,8%) against: 730553 not (44,2%), the federal decree concerning the accession of Switzerland at the institutions of Bretton Woods.
federal Votings. The people approve, by: 929929 yes (56,4%) against: 718254 not (43,6%), the federal law concerning the participation of Switzerland in the institutions of Bretton Woods.
federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1151706 yes (66,1%) against: 591240 not (33,9%), the federal law on the protection of water.
federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1271052 yes (73,8%) against: 450635 not (26,2%), the counter-project on the initiative popular against the abusive application of the techniques of reproduction and genetic engineering to the mankind .
federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1442263 yes (82,5%) against: 305441 not (17,5%), the introduction of a civil service for the conscientious objectors.
federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1255604 yes (73,1%) against: 461723 not (26,9%), modification of the penal code concerning the infringements against the sexual integrity.
federal Votings. The people reject, by: 1093987 not (62,9%) against: 644083 yes (37,1%), the popular initiative for the safeguard of our water .
Elections complementary to Bern. Dori Schaer-Born (PS) is elected with the Council of State to occupy the head office of Rene Bärtschi (PS).

Saturday May 30th

FC Sion is allocated, for the first time of its history, the title of champion of Switzerland of football.

June

Saturday June 13rd

Vernissage of the traditional exposition to the French painter Georges Directs with the Fondation Pierre Gianadda with Martigny.

Tuesday June 23rd

Official visit of the Austrian chancellor Franz Vranitzky.

Friday June 26th

the Italian Giorgio Furlan gains the Tour of Switzerland cyclist

July

Wednesday the 1st er July

the daily newspaper of Montreux Is Of Vaud absorbs the daily newspaper of Vevey Riviera .

August

Saturday August 8th

With the Olympic Games of Barcelona, the Genevese Marc Rosset gains the Olympic championship of tennis.

Saturday August 29th

Commemoration of the 600e birthday of the union of Small and Large the Basle. During three days, close to: 600000 mass out of two banks of the Rhine and Mittlere Brücke.

September

Wednesday September 16th

Opening of the 73e Swiss Counter to Lausanne, of which the duration passes, for the first time of its history, from sixteen to twelve days. The Egypt and the Brittany are the hosts of honor.

Saturday September 19th

the journalist Damien Ruedin, special correspondent of the Radio French-speaking Switzerland, is killed by the explosion of a mine in Croatia.

Sunday September 27th

federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1305914 yes (63,6%) against: 747048 not (36,4%), the construction of the Swiss railway lines through the Alps.
federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1097185 yes (58,0%) against: 794132 not (42,0%), the federal law on the procedure of the federal Parliament, like on the form, publication and the coming into effect of the legislative acts.
federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1230579 yes (61,5%) against: 771351 not (38,5%), the federal law on the excise taxes.
federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1058317 yes (53,6%) against: 917091 not (46,4%), the federal law on the rural land right.
federal Votings. The people reject, by: 1424954 not (72,4%) against: 542768 yes (27,6%), the law on the M.P.'s salaries.
federal Votings. The people reject, by: 1339597 not (69,4%) against: 590484 yes (30,6%), the law on the costs of infrastructures.

October

Monday October 26th

By inaugurating a shopping mall with Saint-Louis, in Alsace, Coop Suisse settles for the first time out of the Swiss borders.

November

Thursday November 19th

Inauguration of the second phase of constructions of the federal Polytechnic school of Lausanne (FPSL). It marks the completion of the transfer of the units of FPSL on the site of Dorigny to Ecublens.

December

Sunday December 6th

federal Votings. The people reject, by: 1786708 not (50,3%) against: 1762872 yes (49,7%), adhesion with European economic space (EEE).
Cantonal elections in Argovie. Ulrich Siegrist (UDC), Peter Wertli (PDC), Thomas Pfisterer (PRD) and Silvio Bircher (PS) are elected with the Council of State at the time of the 1st ballot.

Saturday December 12th

a fire is declared with the factory of shoes Bally with Schönenwerd. 250.000 pairs of shoes are destroyed. The damage is estimated at 50 franc million.

Sunday December 20th

Cantonal elections in Argovie. Stéphanie Mörikofer (PRD) is elected with the Council of State at the time of the 2nd ballot.

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