Corine Mauch (born May 28, 1960 in
Iowa City
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) is a
Swiss
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Social Democrat
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politician
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who serves as
mayor
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of
Zurich. She is the first female and first openly
lesbian
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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
Social Democratic Party
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Fo ...
in the federal parliament. She grew up in the canton of
Aargau
Aargau, more formally the Canton of Aargau (german: Kanton Aargau; rm, Chantun Argovia; french: Canton d'Argovie; it, Canton Argovia), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capita ...
before attending
ETH Zurich
(colloquially)
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, budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021)
, rector = Günther Dissertori
, president = Joël Mesot
, ac ...
, where she studied agricultural economics, and the
Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration
The Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (French: ''Institut des hautes études en administration publique'', IDHEAP) is a Swiss graduate school of public administration. In 2014, the independent foundation was integrated into the Unive ...
(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
*
Corine Mauch's website
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1960 births
Living people
ETH Zurich alumni
Lesbian politicians
LGBT mayors
LGBT politicians from Switzerland
Women mayors of places in Switzerland
Mayors of Zürich
Former United States citizens
American emigrants to Switzerland
People from Aargau
Swiss city councillors
20th-century Swiss women politicians
20th-century Swiss politicians
21st-century Swiss women politicians
21st-century Swiss politicians
21st-century LGBT people