Marie-Madeleine Prongué

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

Prongué'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
  1. "Nécrologie" [Archive of obituaries] (in French). Swiss Parliament. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  2. "Marie-Madeleine Prongué n'est plus". Radio fréquence Jura (in French). 23 May 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  3. "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.


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