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Margrith von Felten (born 30 December 1944) is a Swiss politician and lawyer.


Biography

Margrith von Felten was born on 30 December 1944 in
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. She holds citizenship in Basel,
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, and Stein. Von Felten works as a lawyer. From 1988 to 1991, she represented the
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz; SP; rm, Partida Socialdemocrata da la Svizra) or Swiss Socialist Party (french: Parti socialiste suisse, it, Partito Socialista Svizzero; PS), is a polit ...
in the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt. In the
1991 Swiss federal election Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 20 October 1991. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1895 The Free Democratic Party remained the largest party in the National Council, winning 44 of the 200 ...
, she was elected to the
National Council of Switzerland The National Council (german: Nationalrat; french: Conseil national; it, Consiglio nazionale; rm, Cussegl naziunal) is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, the upper house being the Council of States. With 200 seats, the ...
. She sat in the National Council until 1998 when she left the Swiss Democrats and joined the Basels Starke Alternative due to political differences in economic policy with the former. She ran on a joint left-green-feminist list in the 1998 general election but lost. From 2001 to 2007, she served again on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt. Von Felten is widowed and has two children.


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