Flavia Wasserfallen | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Member of the Grand Council of Bern | |
| In office 2012–2018 | |
| Member of the National Council (Switzerland) | |
| Assumed office June 2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 February 1979 Bern |
Flavia Wasserfallen (born 7 February 1979,Bern) is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party (SP) and a member of the Swiss National Counci l.
She was raised in Hinterkappelen and following her graduation from the Gymnasium in 1998,she first became a Snowboardteacher in 1999. In 2000 she enrolled into University of Bern studying political sciences. She absolved an exchange semester at the University of Bologna within the Erasmus Programme and completed her studies with a Master's degree in 2007. [1]
She was a Snowboard teacher between 1999 and 2005 and between 2006 and 2012 she was employed in the Ministry of Energy . [1] In 2010 she established a local service who distributes organic vegetables to the city of Bern. She credits this with keeping her in contact with working people. [2] [3]
Between 2012 and 2018 she was a member of the Grand Council of Bern and the co-secretary of the SP. [4] She succeeded Evi Alleman (who was elected into the executive council of Bern) in the National Council in June 2018. [4] After Simonetta Sommaruga announced her resignation from the Federal Council in November 2022,she was considered a potential candidate,but she declined,alleging her envisioned candidacy to the Council of States. [5]
She advocates for equal pay and affordable health care. [4] She advocates for better working conditions in relation to the patients [6] and she is the president of the Mother and Father Counseling Association. [7] In September 2020,she was a co-founder of FC Helvetia,the female football team of the Swiss Parliament. [8] In November 2022,Wasserfallen cut her hair in solidarity with the women in Iran,who where protesting against the Government in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini. [9]
She is married and has three children [4] and has her municipal citizenship in Langnau im Emmental and Ferenbalm. [10]
The Federal Council is the federal cabinet of the Swiss Confederation. Its seven members also serve as the collective head of state and government of Switzerland. Since after World War II,the Federal Council is by convention a permanent grand coalition government composed of representatives of the country's major parties and language regions.
Two by-elections to the Swiss Federal Council were held in Switzerland on 22 September 2010,after federal councillors Moritz Leuenberger (SP) and Hans-Rudolf Merz announced they would step down from the Federal Council towards the end of the year. The by-elections resulted in the elections of Simonetta Sommaruga from the SP and Johann Schneider-Ammann from the FDP,resulting in no change in the partisan composition of the council. It also resulted in the first majority of women on the Federal Council in its history,with Sommaruga joining Micheline Calmy-Rey,Doris Leuthard and Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf.
Simonetta Myriam Sommaruga is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2010 to 2022. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS),she was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2015 and 2020.
Women in Switzerland gained the right to vote in federal elections after a referendum in February 1971. The first federal vote in which women were able to participate was the 31 October 1971 election of the Federal Assembly. However it was not until a 1990 decision by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland that women gained full voting rights in the final Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.
The Schweizerische Ausstellung für Frauenarbeit was an exhibition that took place in Bern in 1928 and in Zürich in 1958. SAFFA was organized by the Bund Schweizerischer Frauenvereine,the Swiss Catholic Women's League (SKF),and 28 other Swiss women's associations,to highlight the precarious situation of working women in the postwar years.
Christa Markwalder is a Swiss politician and former President of the National Council.
Regula Rytz is a Swiss historian and politician of the Green Party of Switzerland. She was a member of the National Council from 2011 to 2022. From 2012 to 2016,she was the co-president of the Green Party of Switzerland. She was the party president from 2016 to 2020.
Ursula Wyss is a Swiss politician,economist and urban planner. She represented the Canton of Bern in the Swiss National Council as member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) from 6 December 1999 to 3 March 2013. From January 2013 to December 2020 she was an executive member (Gemeinderätin) of the city of Bern.
Min Li Marti is a Swiss sociologist,historian,publisher and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP).
Eva Herzog is a Swiss politician who has represented Basel-Stadt in the Council of States since 2019. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS).
Sarah Wyss is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Since December 2020 she is a member of the National Council of Switzerland.
Mattea Julia Meyer is a Swiss politician,a member of the Swiss National Council and co-president of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.
Tamara Funiciello is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party (SP).
Carlo Sommaruga is a Swiss lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). He has been a National Councilor for over a decade and since 2019 he is a member of the Council of States.
Jacqueline Badran also referred to as Jackie Badran is a Swiss businesswoman and politician. She currently serves as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) for the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland since 2011. She is primarily known for her campaigns for additional affordable housing and banning Airbnb. She also holds Australian citizenship.
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a current member of the Federal Council. She was elected on 7 December 2022,the first ever elected member from the Canton of Jura.
Johanna Gapany is a Swiss politician of the FDP. The Liberals and a current member of the Council of States in Switzerland.
By-elections to the Swiss Federal Council were held on 7 December 2022,after federal councillors Ueli Maurer (SVP-ZH) and Simonetta Sommaruga (SP-BE) announced they would leave the Council effective 31 December of the same year. The parliament elected Albert Rösti and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider respectively to replace them.
Brigitte Häberli-Koller is a Swiss politician of the party The Centre. She is a former member of the National Council and a current of the Council of States of which she was elected its president in November 2022.
Franziska Roth is a pedagogue and politician of the Social Democrat Party of Switzerland (SP). Since 2019,she is a current member of the National Council,the lower house of the Swiss Parliament.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
