1999 in Switzerland
Government in 1999
- Federal council
- Ruth Dreifuss, PS, president of the Confederation
- Moritz Leuenberger, PS, vice-president of the Confederation
- Kaspar Villiger, PRD
- Pascal Couchepin, PRD
- Arnold Koller, PDC
- Adolf Ogi, UDC
- Flavio Cotti, PDC
Events
January
Monday January 11th- a teacher of Saint-Gall is cut down by the father of a pupil.
- Death of the radio presenter Michel Dénériaz
- Implied in the financial rout of its commune, Mr. Otto Loretan, president of Loèche-the-Baths, announces the abandonment of all its political mandates.
February
Sunday February 7th- federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1287081 yes (74,7%) against: 436511 not (25,3%), the federal decree concerning the modification of the conditions of eligibility at the Federal council.
- federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1501925 yes (87,8%) against: 209263 not (12,2%), the federal decree concerning a constitutional article on the medicine of transplantation
- federal Votings. The people refuse, by: 1025025 not (58,7%) against: 721717 yes (41.3%), the federal popular initiative Property of housing for all .
- federal Votings. The people approve, by: 952482 yes (55,9%) against: 750130 not (44,1%), modification of the federal law on town and country planning.
- the two daily newspapers neuchâtelois the Express train and Impartial the create a common company of edition.
- Two avalanches carry dwelling houses to Evolène, causing the death of twelve people.
March
Wednesday March 11th- Elections with the Federal council. Joseph Deiss and Ruth Metzler-Arnold, all the two members of PDC, is elected to replace Arnold Koller and of Flavio Cotti.
- the balloon pilots Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones buckle their round the world tour in balloon without stopover by being posed to 800 km in south-west Cairo. Parties on March 1st of Castle-in Œx, they were in flight during 19 days, 21 hours and 55 minutes, traversing close to: 45000 km.
- Cantonal elections with Basle-Countryside. The five seats of the executive were allotted to Hans Fünfschilling (PRD), Andreas Koellreuter (PRD), Peter Schmid (PS), Elsbeth Schneider (PDC) and Erich Straumann (UDC).
- the Chinese president Jiang Zemin arrives at the airport of Geneva for a visit of three day old State to Switzerland. The ceremony of the military honors envisaged on the federal Place with Bern must be cancelled Thursday because of demonstrations of partisans of the Tibetan cause.
- Official unveiling of the new seat of the federal Office of the statistics with Neuchâtel.
April
Monday April 5th- For the fifth time of its history, HC Lugano becomes champion of Switzerland of hockey-on-ice
- federal Votings. The people approve, by: 969310 yes (59,2%) against: 669158 not (40,8%), the federal decree relative to an update of the federal Constitution.
- Cantonal elections with Zurich. The seven elected officials with the Council of State are Rita Fuhrer (UDC), Christian Huber (UDC), Markus Notter (PS), Ruedi Jeker (PRD), Dorothee Fierz (PRD), Ernst Buschor (PDC) and Verena Diener (the Greens (Switzerland) |Greens).
- Cantonal elections with the Tessin. A second woman will sit at the cantonal Government, since Patrizia Pesenti (PS) joined Marina Masoni (PRD). The three other elected officials are Giuseppe Buffi (PRD), Marco Borradori (Lega) and Luigi Pedrazzini (PDC).
- Landsgemeinde of Appenzell Rhodos-Interior designates Bruno Koster (without political affiliation) to succeed Ruth Metzler-Arnold with the Government of the demicanton.
May
Thursday May 13rd- Following strong precipitations, rivers and rivers reach levels records in the cantons of Bern, Basle and Argovie.
- Thomas Burgener (PS) is elected with the Council of Valaisan State at the time of a complementary election.
- Death, with Basle, of the leader and industrial Paul Sacher
- Inauguration of the railway tunnel of Béroche, in the Canton of Neuchâtel, which will improve circulation of the trains on the line of the foot of the Jura.
- Cantonal elections with Lucerne. The seven elected officials with the cantonal Government are: Kurt Meyer (PDC), Anton Schwingruber (PDC), Markus Dürr (PDC), Margrit Fischer-William (PDC), Ulrich Fässler (PRD), max Pfister (PRD) and Paul Huber (PS).
June
Wednesday June 2nd- the Lausanne-Sports is allocated, for the ninth time of its history, the title of champion of Switzerland of football.
- Inauguration of the hydro-electric complex of Cleuson-Dixence, close to Riddes, which makes it possible to double the power provided by the Barrage of Large-Dixence the.
- Varnishing of the exposure Pierre Bonnard to the Foundation Pierre Gianadda with Martigny.
- federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1443137 yes (70,6%) against: 601389 not (29,4%), the new federal law on asylum.
- federal Votings. The people accept, by: 1447984 yes (70,8%) against: 595908 not (29.2%), the federal decree to the emergency measures in the field of asylum and abroad.
- federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1128393 yes (54,4%) against: 944919 not (45.6%), the federal decree on the medical heroin regulation.
- federal Votings. The people refuse, by: 1428986 not (69,7%) against: 620797 yes (30.3%), the bill federal on the disablement insurance.
- federal Votings. The people refuse, by: 1286824 not (61,0%) against: 822458 yes (39.0%), the bill federal on the maternity benefits.
- Cantonal elections in Argovie. Ernst Hasler (UDC) is elected with the Council of State where it will succeed the current director of finances Ulrich Siegrist, who withdraws himself.
- Election complementary to Obwald. Hans Wallimann ((PDC) is elected to succeed her colleague of party Peter Rohrer.
- the Italian Francesco Casagrande gains the Tour of Switzerland cyclist
July
Tuesday July 27th- an accident of canyoning makes 21 dead in the throats of Saxetenbach, above Interlaken.
- First, with Vevey, of the spectacle of the Festival of the vine growers, put in scene by François Rochaix.
August
Wednesday August 11th- Carla Del Ponte is named procureure of the International penal court by the Safety advice of UNO.
- Suspected of having diverted 8 franc million, Dino Bellasi, ex-accountant of the group of information of the army, is stopped close to the airport of Kloten.
September
Saturday September 25th- Some 18.000 workers express on the federal Place with Bern to ask for the end of the wages lower than 3000 francs.
October
Friday the 1st er October- Official visit of the German chancellor Gerhard Schröder with Bern.
- the Federal council decides to defer one year Expo.01. Next the national exposure will thus take place in 2002.
- Federal elections. The National council will count from now on 51 socialist , 44 democratic of the center (+ 15), 43 radical (- 2) and 35 Christian-Democrats (+ 1). The tidal wave of UDC occurs in German-speaking Switzerland, where left 14 of its 15 new seats are gained.
November
Thursday November 4th- Inauguration of Aquaparc of the Bouveret, first recreation park watery of French-speaking Switzerland.
- Inauguration of the highway section of the A9 circumventing Sierre.
- Inauguration of the railway tunnel of Vereina, with Klosters, which connects the Lowone to Prättigau.
December
Saturday December 4th- the Alliance of Independent the, which obtained one seat at the time of the last federal elections, decides its dissolution at the time of an assembly of deputy the behavior with Aarau.
- Renewal of the Federal council. The federal Assemblée re-elects the seven outgoing federal advisers. UDC fails in its attempt to place Christoph Blocher at the Federal council.
- the hurricane Lothar striking Western Europe. In Switzerland, the storm causes the death of 14 people, mows nearly 10 million cubic meters of wood and generates real damage for a half-millard of francs.
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