Balthasar Glättli (born 12 February 1972) is a Swiss politician. He is a member of the National Council and, since June 2020, the president of the

Green Party of Switzerland The Green Party of Switzerland (german: GRÜNE Schweiz; french: Les VERT-E-S suisses; it, VERDI svizzeri; rm, VERDA svizra) is the fourth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland and the largest party that is not represented on th ...

Political career

Glättli joined the

in 1991 and was elected as board member of the cantonal section in Zürich. Between 1998 and 2011 he represented Zürich-Seefeld in the parliament of the city of Zürich. He was elected to the National Council in the Swiss federal election in October 2011, and re-elected in October 2015. Since December 2013, he is President of the Green parliamentarian Group. From 2004 to 2008 Glättli was co-president of the cantonal GPS party, in co-operation with Marlies Bänziger. On 20 June 2020, he was elected President of the Green Party, succeeding

Regula Rytz Regula Rytz (born 2 March 1962) is a Swiss historian and politician of the Green Party of Switzerland. She was a member of the National Council from 2011 to 2022. From 2012 to 2016, she was the co-president of the Green Party of Switzerland. Sh ...

Mandatory work

Between 2010 and 2012 Glättli was in charge of the campaigns of the Swiss Union of Public Service Personnel, and currently he presides the ''Mieterverband Deutschschweiz'', the Swiss German section of the union of tenants, and is vice-president of the Swiss national

Mieterverband Mieterverband, meaning the association of the tenants and commonly shortened to ''MV'', is a Swiss nonprofit organization that was founded in 1915 in Zürich. Its full and political correct name is Mieterinnen- und Mieterverband. Important polit ...

. He is a member of various NGO's like the

Erklärung von Bern Public Eye is a sustainability-oriented, politically and religiously independent solidarity development non-governmental organisation based in Switzerland. Public Eye notably encourages Swiss politics and business to respect human rights and th ...

, Amnesty International Switzerland and

Greenpeace Switzerland Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, immigrant environmental activists from the United States. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth t ...

Personal life

Balthasar Glättli graduated

Maturität or its translated terms (''Mature'', ''Matur'', , , , , , ) is a Latin name for the secondary school exit exam or "maturity diploma" in various European countries, including Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech ...

at the gymnasium in Wetzikon in 1991, and studied philosophy, linguistics and German literature at the University of Zurich. Glättli directs a web design and consulting company, is married to the Swiss politician

Min Li Marti Min Li Marti (born 1 June 1974) is a Swiss sociologist, historian, publisher and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Political career and mandatory work Marti's political career began in the association of students ...

. They live with their daughter in

Zürich-Wipkingen Wipkingen is a quarter in the district 10 in Zürich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zürich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 15,446 distributed on an area of 2.11 km². Zentrum für Mig ...

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* * 1972 births Green Party of Switzerland politicians Living people Members of the National Council (Switzerland) Politicians from Zürich Swiss businesspeople Swiss sociologists University of Zurich alumni 20th-century Swiss politicians 21st-century Swiss politicians {{switzerland-stub