Josef Zisyadis

Josef Zisyadis , born the April 17th 1956 with Istanbul, is a Swiss politician. He is of origin Jewish sépharade by his orthodoxe mother and Greek by his father, convert with Protestantism.

He is member of the working and popular Parti as of 1973 and sits at the central committee of the PST as of 1983 then Political office as of 1987.

Pasteur-evangelist with Paris until 1983 then secretary of POP of 1983 with 2007 (with some interuptions). He is then national secretary of the PST in 1994-1995.

Political career

  • 1989 with 1991 member of the Town council to Lausanne

  • 1990 with 1996 appointed with the the Great Council of Vaud, re-elected in 1998 and 2007 (resignation in 2007)
  • 1991 with 1998 to advise national, re-elected in 1999 and 2003
  • 1996 with 1998 to advise State canton of Vaud (chief of the Department of Justice, Police force and Businesses military).
  • 1999 with 2002 constituting with the constituent Assembly of Vaud of which he will be member of the Committee.
  • 2007 -- to advise national

Josef Zisyadis is particularly active with the National council where it deposits many interventions. Thanks to its militancy, he managed to rectify the POP one which had known difficult times in the years 1980. During the voting on the extension of the free-circulation of the people of the September 25th 2005, it posts its support clearly, contrary to PdT of Geneva.

It is established in the demicanton of Obwald in order to denounce the tax under-bidding practiced by this canton. The Federal court considers inadmissible the recourse of Josef Zisyadis, but accepts three filed appeals by citizens of Obwald.

As of the autumn 2003, he is elected like Conseiller national under the banner On the left all! which joins together the PST/POP and SolidaritéS, two political trainings located at the left of the Socialist party.

Not re-elected with the federal elections of 2007, he resigns then of the Great Council and announces that he will not aspire to the post of political secretary of POP to the next cantonal congress, station which he occupies since 1983 (with some interruptions). First come-then with 800 votes approximately from delay, it profits from the withdrawal of his comrade of party Marianne Huguenin which announces on November 1st, 2007 that she prefers to devote herself to the commune of Renens of which she east syndicates, and which she gives up her national political mandate. It then joined at the National council the parliamentary group of the Verts, with which it signed a convention guaranteeing his political independence to him.

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