Fabian Molina

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Fabian Molina
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Member of National Council (Switzerland)
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 March 2018
Political party Social Democratic Party
Residence Zürich, Switzerland
Alma mater University of Zürich (dropped out)
Website Official website

Fabian Molina (born 8 July 1990) is a Swiss politician who currently serves on the National Council (Switzerland) for the Social Democratic Party since 2018. [1] He succeeded Tim Guldimann and became the youngest member of the National Council (Switzerland) ever to be elected aged 28. [2] He previously served as President of the Young Socialists between 2014 and 2016 as well as on the Cantonal Council of Zürich from 2017 to 2018. [3] Since 2019, he is co-president of Swissaid. [4]

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Early life and education

Molina was born 8 July 1990 in Uster, Switzerland to Jorge Molina, a print shop owner, who came to Switzerland from Chile in 1982 after being imprisoned thirteen times for socialist activisim and being a supporter of Salvador Allende. [5] [6] He has two elder half-brothers and a younger brother and primarily was raised in Illnau-Effretikon. Molina completed his Matura in 2011, after failing one year prior and continued to study at University of Zürich where he majored in History and Philosophy (didn't graduate). [7]

Political career

Fabian Molina joined the SP in 2006. From 2007 to 2009, he was a board member of SP Illnau-Effretikon. At the same time, in 2008, he founded the social democratic youth wing (Juso) Illnau-Effretikon. In 2009, he was elected Co-President of the Juso Canton Zurich. In 2010, he was elected to the municipal council of Illnau-Effretikon, where he served until his resignation in 2016. [8] In 2015, he was a candidate for the Swiss National Council on the list of SP in the Canton of Zurich. [9] On national level, Fabian Molina presided the Juso Switzerland from March 2014 and announced his resignation as a president in June 2016 at Juso Switzerland's 2016 annual meeting and expressed a desire for a female successor. [10] In August 2017, he joined the Zurich Cantonal Council for the Pfäffikon constituency. [8] On 15 March 2018 he moved up as National Council after his predecessor Tim Guldimann's resignation. [11] [12] In the 2019 parliamentary elections, Molina was able to defend its seat in the National Council with 81,905 votes. [13]

Political profile

Molina was Youth Secretary at the Swiss national labour union Unia from 2011 to 2014. He is also a member of Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Group Switzerland without Army (GSoA), Public Eye, and Solidar Suisse. From early 2017 to 2018, Molina held a position as a research assistant at the Swiss non-governmental organisation Swissaid [8] and has been Co-President since 6 June 2019. [14]

A prominent figure in national media, he has raised regular attention both in national and international press. He called, for instance, to hoist the multi-coloured Peace Flag instead of the Swiss Flag on 1 August 2014 (Switzerland's national day) to commemorate 100 years of the general mobilization for World War I. [15] In 2015, in cooperation with other political groups, Molina and his Juso took the referendum against the new Intelligence Service Act (Nachrichtendienstgesetz). [16] Furthermore, he took a leading role in the vote on the popular initiative "Stop Speculation on Food Crops" ("Keine Spekulation mit Nahrungsmitteln!") that came to a popular vote on 2 February 2016, and was rejected. [17]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Fabian Molina: Zu Besuch in der WG des neuen SP-Nationalrats". Schweizer Illustrierte (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
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