Carlo Sommaruga

Carlo Sommaruga (born 8 July 1959, Zürich, Switzerland) is a Swiss lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP)

Carlo Sommaruga
Member of the Council of States of Switzerland
Assumed office
2019
Member of the National Council
In office
2003–2019
Personal details
Born8 July 1959
Zürich
Political partySocial Democratic Party of Switzerland

Early life and education

He was born into a family with a political background in Zürich. His father is Cornelio Sommaruga, a former diplomat and president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). He grew up in Geneva, where he studied law at the University of Geneva.[1] He obtained his lawyers license in 1989.[2]

Political career

Between 1991 and 2001 he was a member of the municipal council of Thônex and a member of the Grand Council of Geneva from 2001 to 2003.[3] He became a member of the National Council in 2003[3] and was re-elected until 2019. As a member of the National Council, he was the Co-President of the Parliamentarian Group for the relations to the Kurdish people.[4] He was also critical to the Israeli incursion into the Gaza strip in 2008–2009 and in 2017, he asked in the National Council if a prosecution would be launched against the Israeli politician Tzipi Livni, who visited Switzerland at the time.[5] In November 2019 he was elected into the Council of States representing the SP for the Canton of Geneva.[6]

Professional career

He is a lawyer for the tenants association of Switzerland in Geneva[1] and in November 2016, he was elected their president.[7][8] Since 2018, he is also the president of the board of directors of the Swiss branch of the European NGO for social justice Solidar.[9]

References
  1. "Referentinnen und Referenten". www.eda.admin.ch (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  2. "Ordre des avocats de Genève / Ordre des Avocats de Genève". www.odage.ch. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  3. "Ratsmitglied ansehen". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  4. "GRUPPEN DER BUNDESVERSAMMLUNG (ART. 63 PARLG)" (PDF). National Council of Switzerland. August 2011.
  5. Renz, Frauke (2018). Internationales Strafrecht und humanitäres Völkerrecht: Entwicklungen 2017 (in German). Stämpfli Verlag. pp. 39–40. ISBN 978-3-7272-4486-5.
  6. Fumagalli, Antonio. "Wahlen: Genf schickt rot-grünes Duo in den Ständerat". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  7. "Nationalrat Carlo Sommaruga ist neuer Präsident des Mieterverbandes". SWI swissinfo.ch (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  8. "Medien". www.mieterverband.ch (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  9. "Vorstand | Solidar Suisse". www.solidar.ch. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
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