Green Party president stands down
The president of the Green Party, Ruedi Baumann, has announced he is retiring after four years in the job.
This content was published on August 25, 2001 - 15:14The 54-year-old farmer said he had held the post for long enough and wanted to give his successor time to settle in before the parliamentary elections in two years' time.
A four-strong committee has already been appointed to find a successor who will be elected at the party conference on October 27 at Frauenfeld in canton Thurgau.
Baumann and his wife Stéphanie, who is also a parliamentarian, bought a 70-hectare organic farm in Gascony in southern France earlier this summer and have made it their official residence.
According to the Green Party, Baumann intends to remain a parliamentarian and to represent Swiss living abroad.
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