Oskar Freysinger

Oskar Freysinger (born 12 June 1960) is a Swiss author and former politician for the Swiss People's Party, who served as a member of the National Council of Switzerland from 2003 to 2015 and as

Background Freysinger was born in Sierre. He studied at a German-speaking school in Sion, and later studied German literature and philosophy, and French literature, obtaining a teaching degree in 1985. He studied at the University of Fribourg. He is married to Ghislaine Héritier and has three children.

Freysinger played a crucial role in the 2009 Swiss minaret referendum to ban Islamic mosque minarets, and he participated in a counter-jihad conference in Paris in 2010. He has also been on the board of advisors of the counter-jihad organisation Stop Islamization of Nations (SION). He sees Islam as essentially a political religion and therefore subject to secular law.

In March 2013, Freysinger was elected to the State Council of Valais, the cantonal executive where he led the department of education and Security until 2017 when he lost reelection, becoming the first State Councillor losing reelection in Valais in 80 years

Also in 2013, apart from becoming vice-president of the SVP, Freysinger was involved in a scandal concerning him keeping a German Reich war flag in his basement.

After not seeking reelection to the National Council in 2015 and losing reelection to the Valais State Council in 2017, Freysinger made a quiet exit from the spotlight, writing to a journalist: "I no longer exist".

Behind the scenes, Freysinger continued in politics, continuing to serve as vice-president of the SVP until 2018 and coordinating his party's campaign in the french-speaking part of Switzerland for the 2019 federal elections.

In 2021, an interview with Freysinger was blocked from Facebook due to it containing conspiracy-theories concerning COVID-19 and vaccines.