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Mattea Meyer

b. 1987

Swiss politician

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Born 1987. Mattea Meyer is a Swiss politician.

Mattea Julia Meyer (; born 9 November 1987) is a Swiss politician who currently serves as member of the National Council for the Social Democratic Party since 2015. Concurrently she co-chairs the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland together with Cédric Wermuth. Previously, Meyer served on the Cantonal Council of Zürich from 2011 to 2015.

Early life and education Meyer was born 9 November 1987 in Basel, Switzerland to an agricultural engineer father and a kindergarten teacher mother. She was raised, together with her sister and brother, in Rothenfluh and Winterthur.

She studied history, geography and political science at the University of Zurich between 2007 and 2015. She obtained a MSc in Human and Economic Geography from the University of Zurich in 2015. Since the 30 November 2015, she represents the SP in the National Council of Switzerland and resigned as a cantonal councilor. In her first legislature in the National Council she was a member of the Finance Commission and the Immunity Commission of the National Council. In her second legislature she took a seat in the commission for health and social security (SGK) and remained in the immunity commission. Succeeding Christian Levrat, they were elected on 17 October 2020.

Political positions Meyer is part of the party's majority anti-capitalist and left wing, with the PS representing a more left-wing social democracy when compared to other European social-democratic sister parties. She promotes a welcoming approach towards the asylum seekers which she sees as a normal answer for a country which exports weapons to war zones. During the COVID-19 pandemic she demanded that the Federal and Cantonal (provincial) Governments announce their measures in a coordinated manner. She defends the liberty of expression and assumed a godparenthood of the Belarusian political activist Anastasiya Mirontsava.

Personal life Mattea Meyer is the partner of fellow SP politician Marco Kistler. The couple have two children, a daughter born in 2017 and in 2021.

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Important facts

Birth century
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Education
University of Zurich
Positions held
Member of the Swiss National Council, Member of the Cantonal Council of Zurich, Member of the Winterthur Municipal Council
Also known as
Mattea Julia Meyer

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Swiss politician

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Mattea Meyer was born on 9 November 1987 in Basel.

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Mattea Meyer is a politician.

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Mattea Meyer is Swiss.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Mattea Meyer

· Wikidata: Q23059253

· DBpedia: Mattea Meyer

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