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Joseph Deiss, Swiss economist and politician, 156th President of the Swiss Confederation

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Joseph Deiss

87th President of the Swiss Confederation

Joseph Deiss is a Swiss economist and politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1999 to 2006. A member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC), he first headed the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (1999–2002) before transferring to the…
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President of the Swiss Confederation

Presiding member of the Swiss Federal Council

The president of the Swiss Confederation, also known as the president of the confederation, federal president or colloquially as the president of Switzerland is, as primus inter pares among the other members of the Federal Council, the head of Switzerland's seven-member…
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