Josef Zisyadis

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Josef Zisyadis (2007)

Josef Zisyadis (born April 17, 1956 in Istanbul ) is a Swiss theologian and politician ( PdA , AL since 2010 ).

biography

Josef Zisyadis was born in Istanbul to Greek parents. His family soon moved to Athens . In 1963 he came to Switzerland, to Lausanne , where he graduated from high school and then studied theology . Following his studies, which he completed with a licentiate in 1979 , he spent four years as a pastor in Belleville near Paris .

From 1983 to 1994 he worked as canton secretary of the Parti Ouvrier Populaire of the canton of Vaud , from 1994 to 1996 as secretary of the parent party PdA Switzerland . Since 1998 he has been political secretary at the POP Vaud.

From 1996 to 1998 he was a State Councilor for the Canton of Vaud and headed the Justice, Police and Military Departments.

Since the 1999 elections he has been a member of the National Council for the Labor Party , to which he was a member from 1991 to 1996. In the elections of October 21, 2007 , Josef Zisyadis was voted out of office, but since the elected party member Marianne Huguenin renounced her seat, Zisyadis moved up. Four years later, in the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2011 , he did not run again and left the National Council.

He took up residence in Sachseln on February 27, 2006 in order to take legal action against the new tax law of the canton of Obwalden . Since three Obwalden were found who brought the lawsuit, he moved back to the canton of Vaud on May 1, 2006.

Zisyadis was involved in the founding of the Alternative Left and was run as its National Council from 2010 until he was voted out on December 4, 2011. He is a dual citizen of Greece and Switzerland .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Häfliger: Parliamentarians should declare foreign passports. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 11, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Zisyadis, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul