Manuela Weichelt-Picard

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Manuela Weichelt-Picard (2019)

Manuela Weichelt-Picard (born July 21, 1967 in Romanshorn ; resident in Zillis-Reischen ) is a Swiss politician ( alternative - the Green Train ).

biography

Weichelt-Picard grew up in the canton of Thurgau and in Neunkirch in the canton of Schaffhausen . She is a qualified nurse and qualified social worker . Between 1995 and 1998 she was in charge of controlled heroin prescription in the canton of Zug . From 1997 to 2002 she completed the postgraduate course for the Master of Public Health (MPH). At the same time, she worked from 2000 to 2005 as a project manager at the health department of the Canton of Graubünden and from 2005 as a member of the management of the Swiss Red Cross . She is married, the mother of two daughters and lives in Zug .

politics

From 1994 to 2002 she was the representative of the Steinhauser “Fresh Brise” party, Zug Cantonal Councilor and in this capacity she was a member of the hospital commission. In 2001 she survived the attack in Zug when an assassin shot and killed 14 politicians during a meeting of the cantonal council in the parliament building of the canton of Zug.

She was parliamentary group leader from 1996 to 2002 and president of the alternative canton of Zug from 2005 to 2007.

In January 2007 Weichelt-Picard took over as newly elected Zug Councilor the Department of the Interior. In 2010 and 2014 she was confirmed in office. At the end of 2016 she was elected Mrs. Landammann (District President) by the canton parliament for two years . She did not run for the 2018 government council elections. Since neither the alternatives could defend their seat nor the SP could win one, the left was no longer represented in the Zug government for the first time since 1923. From 2010 to 2018 Weichelt-Picard was President of the Conference of Central Switzerland Social Directors (ZGSDK).

She was elected to the National Council in the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2019 . The alternatives were able to recapture Jo Lang's seat, which was lost in 2011 . Weichelt-Picard is the first woman to be elected to the Federal Assembly in the canton of Zug .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Assassination shocked Zug and the world. In: SRF 1 , July 30, 2018.
  2. «I waited for the gunman to kill me». In: 20 minutes , August 24, 2020.
  3. For the first time a Green as Zuger Landammann. In: Lucerne newspaper. Retrieved December 15, 2016 .
  4. Manuela Weichelt-Picard no longer competes. SRF, April 23, 2018, accessed October 29, 2019 .
  5. Harry Ziegler: Zug government council elections: The left cannot make the leap - Beat Villiger re-elected. In: Lucerne newspaper. October 7, 2018, accessed October 29, 2019 .
  6. ^ Amstad new to the Presidium . In: Nidwaldner Zeitung . November 28, 2018, p. 23 .
  7. Manuela Weichelt is the first member of the Zug National Council. SRF, October 20, 2019, accessed on October 29, 2019 .