Tamara Funiciello

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Tamara Funiciello (2019)

Tamara Funiciello (born March 20, 1990 in Bern ) is a Swiss politician ( SP) .

biography

Tamara Funiciello is the daughter of a retail worker and a factory worker. She was born in Bern, but grew up in Sardinia . At the turn of the millennium , the family moved to Bern again. She graduated from high school, began studying international relations at the University of Geneva and moved to the University of Bern to study history and social sciences . Before her time as President of Juso Switzerland, she worked as a warehouse worker, office and service clerk and as a union secretary at Unia . Funiciello played in the Swiss national land hockey team and won gold at the U21 European Championship in the C-Division. In an interview with the magazine published in June 2019, Funiciello first publicly commented on her sexuality and came out as bisexual . With her election as national councilor, she is the first woman in the Swiss parliament to make her love for women public.

Political career

Funiciello started her political career as a member of the board of directors of the non-presiding city ​​of Bern Juso, later she was president of the Juso Canton of Bern and the aid organization JuBria, which is close to the Sandinista . She also served as a member of the management of the SP Canton Bern . On June 18, 2016, she achieved an absolute majority in the first ballot as the fourth and first female president since the Juso reintroduced a presidium in 2008 . On December 4, 2016, Funiciello was elected Vice President of the SP Switzerland . Since then she has also been a member of the management of SP Switzerland.

Funiciello is a committed feminist and actively deals with the topic of sexism and violence against women. As a socialist, she strives for a non-violent overcoming of capitalism towards a democratic socialism .

In the elections on November 27, 2016, Funiciello was elected to represent the Juso in the Bern city council. In the elections on March 25, 2018, she was elected to represent the SP in the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern , whereupon she resigned from the city council. After three years, she gave up her position as President of Juso at the end of August 2019. Her successor is Ronja Jansen . In the parliamentary elections on October 20, 2019 , Funiciello was elected to the National Council on the list of Bernese SP women , where she takes a seat on the Legal Commission. She then gave up her seat on the Grand Council.

On February 29, 2020, Funiciello was elected as Co-President of the SP Women Switzerland in the first ballot.

Media attention

Funiciello received greater media attention in 2017 through a political campaign in which she and other female party members defended themselves against sexism by burning a bra and bare chest. In 2018 she received special media attention with her criticism of the song 0-7-9 by the pop duo Lo & Leduc , which she described as sexist in an interview with Tele Bärn . The newspaper Schaffhauser Nachrichten printed a cartoon with their (publicly available) mobile phone number. Funiciello then received insults and threats. The press council reprimanded the publication. In February 2019, she visited some commenters to find out something about the background of hate speech on the Internet in a conversation with them .

Web links

Commons : Tamara Funiciello  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article WTF! , from June 21, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c CV. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c Target of anger - Tamara Funiciello on the road trip to Hassland. In: watson.ch . March 28, 2019, accessed March 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Straight left. In: The magazine. June 21, 2019, accessed on June 24, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  5. ↑ Tamara Funiciello comes out as bisexual. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Funiciello is Vice President of SP Switzerland | NZZ. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  7. ^ Concern - Tamara Funiciello . In: Tamara Funiciello . ( tamarafuniciello.ch [accessed on March 11, 2020]).
  8. ^ Controversial Juso President - Tamara Funiciello - radical, but ready for discussion. March 11, 2017, accessed March 11, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Municipal elections of November 27, 2016. In: www.bern.ch. Retrieved January 15, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Elections and Votes. Retrieved March 26, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Tamara Funiciello resigns. In: srf.ch . April 6, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  12. ^ Councilor Funiciello Tamara. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Tamara Funiciello new co-president of the SP Women * Switzerland. February 29, 2020, accessed on March 11, 2020 (German).
  14. ↑ Cinzia Venafro: Juso feminists provoke with bosom action . ( blick.ch [accessed on January 19, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Is the summer hit "079" sexist? In: TeleBärn News. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Christina Neuhaus: «0-7-9» het she gseit | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 3, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 12, 2018]).
  17. ^ After criticism of 079-Song by Lo & Leduc, newspaper prints mobile phone number from Juso boss . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed on November 12, 2018]).
  18. ↑ The press council criticizes the publication of Tamara Funiciello's telephone number | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on March 11, 2020]).
predecessor Office successor
Fabian Molina President of the Young Socialists Switzerland
June 2016 - August 2019 		Ronja Jansen
personal data
SURNAME Funiciello, Tamara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern