Sandra Locher Bengeruel | |
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| Member of the National Council | |
| Assumed office 2019 | |
| Constituency | Grison |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 6,1975 Solothurn,Switzerland |
| Profession | Educator |
Sandra Locher Benguerel (6 September 1975,Solothurn,Switzerland [1] ) is an educator and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Since 2019,she is a member of the National Council,the lower house of the Swiss Parliament.
She was born in Solothurn in 1975 and was raised in Lüterkofen. [2] In 1991,she enrolled in the vocational school in Solothurn from which she graduated in 1996. [3] Following was a teacher for four years in Bettlach. [2] In 2001 she settled in the Canton of Grisons where she learned the Romansh language. [2] In Grison she was the educator primary school in Maladers [3] and since 2005 she teaches a german romansh bilingual class. [4] [3] In 2015 she assumed the presidency of the LEGR,the teachers association of Grison [4] a position she held until 2020. [1] Aside she is a member of the board of the Vocational School of Grison. [5]
Her interest for politics arose when at the age of eighteen years,she held a speech on occasion of the Swiss National Day the 1 August. [2] In 2010 she was elected into the Grand Council of Grison in which she presided over its Commission of Education and Culture between 2010 and 2014. [1]
In the Federal Elections of 2019,she was elected into the National Council representing the SP for Grison. [2] In the National Council she defended the politics of the mountainous cantons of Switzerland. [2]
She is married and is a trained French and English teacher. [3] After having taught for four years,she took a year off a traveled the world with an around the world ticket flight ticket. [6] Despite she resides in Chur, [1] she still has a strong bond to her place or origin in Solothurn. [2] During the parliamentary sessions she lives with her parents in Solothurn and commutes to Bern. [2]