Corine Mauch (born May 28, 1960 in

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) is a

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who serves as

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of Zurich. She is the first female and first openly

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person to be elected mayor of the city.

Political career

Mauch was elected mayor in March 2009, after ten years on the city council. In the first round of balloting, she finished in second place, barely 1,300 votes behind Kathrin Martelli, the candidate of the Free Democratic Party. In the second round, she received 41,745 votes, beating Martelli by 58 percent to 42. In the March 2018 elections, Mauch received 63,139 votes, and she was re-elected as mayor of Zürich until her terms ends in 2022.

Personal life

Mauch is the daughter of Ursula Mauch, who led the

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in the federal parliament. She grew up in the canton of

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before attending

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, where she studied agricultural economics, and the

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(IDHEAP). She began the procedure to renounce her United States citizenship in 2012; her office confirmed media reports of the renunciation in April 2013.

References

External links

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Corine Mauch's website
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