1. Doris Leuthard was born on 10 April 1963 and is a Swiss politician and lawyer who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2006 to 2018.
13 Facts About Doris Leuthard
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Doris Leuthard was a member of the Swiss National Council from 1999 to 2006 for the canton of Aargau.
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Doris Leuthard presided over the Christian Democratic People's Party from 2004 to 2006.
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Doris Leuthard received 133 out of 234 valid votes to become the 109th Federal Councillor.
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Doris Leuthard is the fifth woman elected to the Federal Council.
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Doris Leuthard's election represented a departure from a long precedent of replacing a Member of the Federal Council with someone from the same language group.
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Doris Leuthard was elected President of the Confederation for 2010 and 2017.
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Doris Leuthard became the third woman to hold the post, after Ruth Dreifuss and Micheline Calmy-Rey.
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Doris Leuthard was 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.
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However, in most cases, Doris Leuthard was merely primus inter pares, with no power above and beyond her six colleagues.
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Doris Leuthard was succeeded by Calmy-Rey in 2011, the first time two women held the office in succession.
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In July 2022, Swiss media reported that Doris Leuthard was the victim of aggression by her husband in their vacation home in Ticino with a knife.
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Doris Leuthard's husband has been detained in a psychiatric prison by the Swiss police because of the chance of recidivism and alcoholism.