Jacques-Simon Eggly

Jacques-Simon Eggly (born September 4, 1942, in Geneva) is a Swiss politician from the canton of Geneva and a member of the Liberal Party of Switzerland.

Eggly was a journalist and columnist for the Tribune de Genève.

In 1983, he was elected to the Swiss National Council where he remained until 2007.

During this period, he was co-president of the Swiss-Greece parliamentary group.

[2] In August 1990, the German television program 10/10 revealed Eggly was among five members of the so-called "resistance council", a group of parliamentarians who, without any mandate from parliament, would have served as an advisory body for the army's chief of staff in the event of the mobilization of that stay-behind army as part of Projekt-26.