Sandra Locher Benguerel

Sandra Locher Benguerel (6 September 1975) 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.

Early life and education She was born in Solothurn in 1975 and was raised in Lüterkofen. In 1991, she enrolled in the vocational school in Solothurn from which she graduated in 1996. Following was a teacher for four years in Bettlach.

Political career 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. Despite she resides in Chur, she still has a strong bond to her place or origin in Solothurn. During the parliamentary sessions she lives with her parents in Solothurn and commutes to Bern.