Irène Kälin

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Irène Kälin, 2017.

Irène Kälin (born February 6, 1987 in Lenzburg ; resident in Einsiedeln ) is a Swiss politician ( Greens ).

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2007 Kalin graduated from the baccalaureate at the secondary school Leonhard in Basel . From 2009 she studied Islamic Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Zurich and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 2013 . Since 2014 she has been completing the “Religious Cultures” master’s program at the University of Bern . From 2015 to 2016 she worked as a union secretary at Unia Aargau and is now president of the Aargau umbrella organization for employees, ArbeitAargau.

From January 2010 to November 2017, Kälin was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau . There she was a deputy in three commissions: the commission for task planning and finance (2010–2013), the naturalization commission (2013–2015) and the commission for the environment, building, transport, energy and regional planning (2013–2015); from 2017 she was a member of the business audit committee . From April 2013 to November 2017 she was co-leader of the Greens in the Grand Council.

Kälin was Vice President of Green Switzerland from 2012 to 2014.

In the 2015 parliamentary elections , she ran for both the National Council and the Council of States . On November 27, 2017, she took over the seat of the resigned Jonas Fricker in the National Council as runner-up on the electoral list of the Greens . In the elections in 2019 her position as the National Council was confirmed.

Kälin has been in a relationship with journalist Werner De Schepper since 2013 . The couple moved from Lenzburg to Oberflachs in 2018 , and their son was born in the same year.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Board of Directors. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Election of the two Aargau members of the Council of States for the 2015/2019 term of office on October 18, 2015 (1st ballot) - Candidate portrait - Kälin Irène , website of the Canton of Aargau, accessed on October 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ Irène Kälin on the website of the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau , accessed on October 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ Irène Kälin on her candidacy (January 14, 2015) , radio report by the SRF , 3:27 minutes, accessed on October 1, 2017.
  5. ↑ First reactions: This is what successor Kälin and Aargauer Grünen President Hölzle say , Aargauer Zeitung , updated on October 1, 2017, accessed on October 1, 2017. (Archive version)
  6. ↑ Schweizer Illustrierte , April 15, 2013, p. 111.
  7. ↑ Relocation: Irène Kälin becomes a Schenkenberger. Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ National Councilor Irène Kälin had her baby. Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kälin, Irène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (Greens)
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Lenzburg