Marie-Madeleine Prongué

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]

• "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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