Marie-Madeleine Prongué (31 July 1939 – 23 May 2019) was a Swiss politician who was a member of the Council of States in 1995.
Life
editProngué's political career began as a member of the city council of Porrentruy from 1981 – 1988. She sat in the Parliament of Jura from 1983 until 1994. In 1995 she was the first woman to represent Jura in the Council of States (January – December).[1]
Prongué was a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland, and became the first woman to lead the party in the canton of Jura in 1982.[2] She co-chaired a commission representing women in the Catholic Church in Switzerland, until she resigned in protest alongside most other members of the commission in 2006.[3]
Prongué died in Porrentruy in 2019.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Nécrologie" [Archive of obituaries] (in French). Swiss Parliament. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ a b "Marie-Madeleine Prongué n'est plus". Radio fréquence Jura (in French). 23 May 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ "Gemeinsamer Rücktritt von sechs Mitgliedern der Kirchlichen Frauenkommission KFK". Katholisches Medienzentrum (in German). 28 March 2006. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
"Suisse: Démission de six membres de la Commission "Femmes dans l'Eglise" de la CES". Portail catholique suisse (in French). 28 March 2006. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
External links
edit- "Marie-Madeleine Prongué". Federal Assembly.
- "Prongué, Marie-Madeleine" (in French). State Archives Jura.
- "Prongué, Marie-Madeleine (1939-2019)". Dictionnaire du Jura (in French). Société Jurassiene d'Emulation.
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