'World's first' Green parliamentarian dies aged 75
Daniel Brelaz, celebrated in Switzerland as the first Green politician elected to a national parliament anywhere in the world, died overnight, his family said Sunday. He was 75. Brelaz was elected to the National Council, the lower house of Switzerland's Federal Assembly, in 1979. He died following a heart attack, his son told Switzerland's domestic Keystone-ATS news agency. Brelaz,