Villmergen
Villmergen is a municipality in the district of Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Two famous battles took place at Villmergen.
In 2010 Hilfikon merged into Villmergen.Opfikon) is a Swiss politician, a member of the Swiss National Council and co-president of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.
Early life and education
Mattea Meyer was born in Basel, but her family moved to
Winterthur
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, twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austria), La ...
in
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. She studied history, geography and political science at the University of Zurich between 2007 and 2015. She obtained a
MSc
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in
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and
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from the University of Zurich in 2015. During her studies, she stayed for one semester at the
University of Aix-Marseille
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where she experienced protests by the professors and students of the University.
Political career
From 2009 to 2013 she was Vice-President of the Young Socialists of Switzerland. From 2011 to 2015 she was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Zurich. In 2015 she was re-elected in her constituency with the best result of her party, but in April 2015, the cantonal party nominated her as a candidate for the 2015 National Council elections. Since the 30 November 2015, she represents the SP in the
National Council of Switzerland
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and resigned as a cantonal councilor. In her first legislature in the National Council she was a member of the Finance Commission and the Immunity Commission of the National Council. In the parliamentary elections in 2019, Meyer was re-elected as a national councilor. In her second legislature she took a seat in the commission for health and social security (SGK) and remained in the immunity commission. In December 2019 Meyer announced that together with
Cédric Wermuth Cédric Wermuth (born 19 February 1986) is a Swiss politician and the co-president of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP), for which he represents the canton of Aargau in the National Council of Switzerland. He is a former president of t ...
, she would be a candidate for the presidency of the SP Switzerland. Succeeding
Christian Levrat
Christian Levrat (born 7 July 1970) is a Swiss politician. He served as the President of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland from 2008 until 2020. He has served as a member of the Council of States from Fribourg since 2012. Prior to the ...
, they were elected on 17 October 2020.
Political positions
She is a leftwing politician and sees the SP much more defending so called left politics than the European
Social Democratic
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sister parties of the SP. She promotes a welcoming approach towards the asylum seekers which she sees as a normal answer for a country which exports weapons to war zones. During the
COVID-19 pandemic
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she demanded that the Federal and Cantonal (provincial) Governments announce their measures in a coordinated manner. She defends the liberty of expression and assumed a godparenthood of the
Belarus
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ian political activist Anastasiya Mirontsava.
Personal life
Mattea Meyer is the partner of fellow SP politician Patrick Kistler. The couple have two children, a daughter born in 2017 and in 2021.