Mauro Poggia

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Mauro Poggia (2011)

Mauro Poggia (born April 25, 1959 in Moutier , Canton Bern ; legal resident in Meyrin ) is a Swiss lawyer and politician . He is a member of the Mouvement citoyens genevois (MCG) and sat on the National Council from 2011 to 2013 . In November 2013 he was elected as the first MCG representative to the State Council , the Geneva cantonal government . In 2018 he was confirmed in office.

Life

Mauro Poggia's parents immigrated to Switzerland from Piedmont . Although he was born in the Bernese town of Moutier, he grew up in Geneva , where he passed the Matura examination in 1978 and studied law until 1981 . After working for two years in Jean Jacques Hodel's law firm, at the age of 24 he started his own business as a lawyer, where he also dealt with areas of law that other lawyers rarely deal with, such as sports law, medical law and insurance law. Among other things, he was involved in the lawsuits surrounding Pierre-Albert Chapuisat's foul on Lucien Favre (which is considered the most difficult in the history of Swiss football to date) and the blood products that have not been tested for HIV in the central laboratory of the Swiss Red Cross .

He got into politics relatively late. He ran as a representative of the Italian expatriates in the Italian Senate elections of 2008 on the list of the UDC . Then he joined the CVP . Since he did not get a promising place on the list there, he moved to the MCG in 2009 and was directly elected to the Cantonal Council. In 2011 he was the first representative of the MCG to be elected to the National Council. In the cantonal executive elections in November 2013, he reached sixth place in the first round and seventh place in the second round with 41,127 votes, making him the first representative of the MCG to join the government of the canton of Geneva. Therefore, according to the cantonal constitution, he had to give up his mandate for the National Council; MCG President Roger Golay replaced him .

In addition to his advocacy and political activities, Poggia is also President of the Association Suisse des Assurés (Assuas, Swiss Association of Insured Persons) in the canton of Geneva.

Poggia is a second marriage to a North African who grew up in Switzerland, for the sake of whom he converted from Christianity to Sufism , an Islamic religion . He has two children from his first marriage and one child from his second marriage.

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SURNAME Poggia, Mauro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Moutier , Canton of Bern