Flavio Cotti

Flavio Cotti
Cotti in 1997
President of Switzerland
In office 1 January 1991 – 31 December 1991
Preceded by	Arnold Koller
Succeeded by	René Felber
In office 1 January 1998 – 31 December 1998
Preceded by	Arnold Koller
Succeeded by	Ruth Dreifuss
Member of the Swiss Federal Council
In office 1 January 1987 – 30 April 1999
Preceded by	Alphons Egli
Succeeded by	Joseph Deiss
Personal details
Born	(1939-10-18)18 October 1939 Prato-Sornico, Switzerland
Died	16 December 2020(2020-12-16) (aged 81) Locarno, Switzerland
Political party	Christian Democratic People's Party

Flavio Cotti (18 October 1939^[1] – 16 December 2020) was a Swiss politician who served as member of the Federal Council from 1986 to 1999. He was a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party from the canton of Ticino. In the 1990s, Cotti led the Swiss government's unsuccessful attempts to further Switzerland's political integration into the European Union. He was President of the Confederation in 1991 and 1998 and headed the departments of Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs.