Gabi Petri

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Gabi Petri (born December 6, 1960 in Horgen ) is a Swiss politician ( Greens ). She has been a member of the Zurich Cantonal Council and Managing Director of the VCS Zurich Transport and Environment Association since 1991 and is considered an accomplished transport politician.

Life

Gabi Petri grew up in Horgen. She graduated from the Wiedikon Cantonal School in Zurich and began studying law at the University of Zurich , which she dropped out because of her first pregnancy. Since 1991 she has been working part-time as managing director of VCS Zurich. Gabi Petri has lived in partnership with the Swiss politician Markus Knauss (born on July 27, 1961), who has been a member of the Zurich city ​​council, the local council, for the Greens for many years . The two share the management of the Zurich VCS and the care of their two daughters. The couple refuses outside care. They met in 1987 through friends in Zurich District 4 and soon became parents. Today they live in Zurich's district 3.

politics

Petri began her political career on the left, with the Progressive Organizations ( POCH ). She has been associated with the Green Party since the early 1990s. In 1991 she was elected to the Zurich Cantonal Council. In parliament, but also in her position as VCS managing director, Petri mainly deals with transport issues. In her first foray in 1991, for example, as a cantonal councilor, she opposed the Oberland Autobahn , which should have led through a protected moorland . In 2001, as VCS managing director, she successfully appealed against the major Eurogate project at Zurich main station.

Her involvement brought Petri again and again hostility: In 2004 Petri fought the Hardturm football stadium with the VCS Zurich through all instances and was insulted by football fans as an “eco-witch”. The politician is considered to be very well networked and often forges alliances across party lines, for example to prevent the police and justice center in Zurich (which she once failed to do). Sometimes her self-confident demeanor causes quarrels in her own ranks, in 2014 there was a rift in the district party 4/5 before the elections because the veteran politician did not want to give up her first place on the list to a young politician.

In 2020 Petri and Knauss sank the Rosengarten Tunnel, a controversial billion-dollar project by the Canton of Zurich in the city of Zurich. The two had led the no campaign to vote on the rose garden project, the clear result, over 60 percent of the population voted no, is for the NZZ "one of the greatest victories in the decades of activity of the politician couple."

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cantonal Council of Zurich - Members - Overview of members. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  2. ^ VCS section Zurich - VCS Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Markus Knauss | Detail view member | Zurich City Council. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Marc Zollinger: "Don't prevent, optimize". In: Tages-Anzeiger, February 20, 2001, accessed April 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ The parking lot Zwingli . In: Tages-Anzeiger . ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed April 30, 2020]).
  6. ^ Cantonal Council of Zurich - Members - Overview of members. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Marc Zollinger: "Don't prevent, optimize". In: Tages-Anzeiger, February 20, 2001, accessed April 30, 2020.
  8. ↑ Pierina Hassler: "Petri insulted as an eco-witch". In: look . May 26, 2004, accessed April 30, 2020.
  9. ↑ Lucien Scherrer: Who's Afraid of Gabi Petri? | NZZ. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Green power couple snubbed their own people . In: Tages-Anzeiger . ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed April 30, 2020]).
  11. ^ Canton of Zurich - voters stop the billion-dollar tunnel. February 8, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  12. ^ Nils Pfänderser: Rosengarten Zurich: Knauss and Petri - the green no-sayers . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed April 30, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Petri, Gabi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (Greens)
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Horgen