English name:

Free Democratic Party

Status:

Member (founding member)

Address:

Neuengasse 20

Postfach 6136

3001 Bern

Telephone:

00 41 31 320 35 35

Fax:

00 41 31 320 35 00

E-mail:

gs@fdp-prd.ch

Homepage on the World Wide Web:

http://www.fdp-prd.ch/

Leader:

Christine Beeerli

President:

Franz Steinegger

Secretary-General:

Johannes Matyassy

Press Officer:

Guido Schommer

Responsible for Women’s Issues:

Marie-Louise Baumann

International Relations Secretary:

Claudia Kohlschütter

- direct telephone number:

00 41 31 320 35 35

- direct fax number:

00 41 31 320 35 00

Party Newspaper:

Freisinn - Politique

Date of the last general Elections:

October 1995

- Votes:

384520

- Percentage:

20.2

- Number of seats in parliament:

Parliament: 45/200 Senate:17/46

- Date of the next general Elections:

October 1999

Membership:

150000

Parliamentary Group:

Bahnhofplatz 10 A

Postfach 6136

3001 Bern

- Telephone

00 41 31 311 34 38

- Fax

00 41 31 312 19 51

Parliamentary Spokesperson(Foreign Policy):

Ernst Muehlemann

Parliamentary Spokesperson(Defence):

Oskar Fritschi

Parliamentary Spokesperson(Human Rights):

Lili Nabholz

Government or Opposition:

In government

- Minister(s):

Kaspar Villiger (Finance); Jean-Pascal Delamuraz (Economic)