She has been a member of the parliament of the
Canton Basel-Landschaft since 1999, In November 2010, she replaced the resigning
Kathrin Amacker in the National Council. She was also a member of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). At the party conference of the CVP Baselland in October 2018, Schneider-Schneiter was nominated as a candidate for the successor of
Doris Leuthard in the Federal Council. She would have been the first Federal Councillor from the
Basel Landschaft in 123 years. Eventually, Viola Amherd was elected into the Federal Council. In the
Swiss parliamentary elections in 2019, Schneider-Schneiter was re-elected to the National Council rather comfortably as the CVP entered the elections within a political alliance with the
Green Liberal Party (GLP) and the
Evangelical People's Party (EVP). == Further activities ==