Beat Flach

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Beat Flach
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Born (1965-01-21) 21 January 1965 (age 59)
Bern, Switzerland
Political party GLP
OccupationPolitician

Beat Flach (born 21 January 1965) is a Swiss politician (GLP).

Political career

Flach was one of the founding members of the cantonal Aargau GLP in 2008. On 8 March 2009 he was elected to the Grand Council of Aargau. In the elections on 23 October 2011, he was elected to the National Council. [1] He is a member of the Legal Affairs Committee, the Security Policy Committee and the Judicial Committee. [2] Flach is involved, among other things, in the areas of human rights (war material exports, [3] [4] corporate responsibility, [5] abolition of the "majesty affront article" [6] [7] ) and social policy (restructuring procedures for the heavily indebted, [8] vocational training for young people with disabilities [9] ). He was confirmed in office as a National Councillor in the 2019 general elections. [10]

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