Michael Töngi

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Michael Töngi (2018)

Michael Töngi (born March 16, 1967 in Sursee ; resident in Kriens and Engelberg ) is a Swiss politician ( Greens ). He has been a member of the National Council since March 2018 .

biography

Michael Töngi attended primary school in Kriens and the canton school Alpenquai in Lucerne . He then studied at the Universities of Basel and Lucerne . He completed his studies with a degree in Swiss history, German linguistics and literary studies and modern general history at the University of Basel. He then worked as a secretary for the Green Canton of Lucerne and as an editor in the regional section of the Neue Luzerner Zeitung .

From 2003 to 2011 Töngi worked for the German-speaking tenants 'association and from 2011 to 2018 he was general secretary of the Swiss tenants' association . He is currently a board member there, as well as in the Swiss Transport Club .

Töngi lives with his partner in Kriens.

politics

Töngi began his political career in the residents 'council of Kriens, to which he was a member from 1990 to 2001 (1999-2000 as president of the residents' council). From 2004 to 2008 he was Co-President of the Green Canton of Lucerne and from 2007 to 2018 a member of the Lucerne Cantonal Council . In 2015 he ran for the government council of the canton of Lucerne, but was not elected.

In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2015 , Töngi came on the list of the Greens behind the elected Louis Schelbert, the first substitute for a member of the National Council. When Schelbert resigned for reasons of age, Töngi took over his successor and was sworn in as a national councilor on March 12, 2018. In this function he is a member of the Business Audit Commission and the Commission for Transport and Telecommunications.

Töngi's political priorities include advocating environmentally friendly mobility and a “housing policy that creates more affordable housing”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b My life. Michael Töngi's website, accessed January 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Michael Töngi. In: parlament.ch. Federal Assembly, accessed on January 1, 2019 .
  3. ^ Mathias Haehl: Tie? No way! Not even at the swearing-in in the Federal Palace. In: Zentralplus . March 9, 2018, accessed January 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Government elections: Michael Töngi in the race. Michael Töngi website, accessed January 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Michael Töngi. In: parlament.ch. Federal Assembly, accessed on January 1, 2019 .
  6. ^ Ruedi Studer: Fresh blood for center-left. In: Blick.ch . February 26, 2018, accessed January 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Töngi, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (GPS)
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Sursee