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Verena Diener (2007)

Verena Diener in the National Council in 1995 (1st from left)

Verena Diener (born March 27, 1949 in Zurich ; resident in Winterthur ) is a Swiss politician ( GLP ).

biography

Verena Diener grew up in Flaach , is a trained primary school teacher and dyslexia therapist and was a lecturer in ecology. She is widowed and has two daughters and two foster sons.

Diener was a member of the Swiss Green Party , which she chaired from 1992 to 1995. From 1987 to 1997 she was National Councilor and from 1995 to 2007 Government Councilor of the Canton of Zurich , where she headed the Health Directorate.

In 2004 Diener resigned from the Green Party because of political differences and founded the Green Liberal Party (GLP) of the Canton of Zurich together with the Zurich National Councilor Martin Bäumle . She ran for the new party in the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2007 for both the National Council and the Council of States . Although she took the last place on the party list, she made it back to the National Council after ten years of absence, but only made it to fourth place in the first ballot for the Council of States.

For the second ballot, in which the second mandate was still to be awarded, talks between the GLP and the SP first took place in order to put forward a common candidate for the center-left parties against SVP President Ueli Maurer . However, these talks ended without success. First, Chantal Galladé (SP), who achieved more votes than servants in the first ballot, stuck to another candidacy. After Verena Diener announced that she would run in the second ballot, Galladé withdrew her candidacy. Finally, on November 25, 2007, Verena Diener achieved 199,594 votes, almost 30,000 more than her competitor Maurer. In 2011 she was confirmed as a Councilor of States.

After eight years in the Council of States, 65-year-old Verena Diener did not run for elections in 2015 and withdrew from active politics after 40 years.

Web links

• Verena Diener on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Verena servant. Candidacy Senate elections of 23 October 2011. In: electoral platform Smartvote . Politools - Political Research Network, accessed November 1, 2011 . 
• Verena Diener's website
• Profile on the GLP website ( Memento from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Verena Diener, GLP. ( Memento from November 16, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Tages-Anzeiger . September 13, 2007. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
2. ↑ Verena Diener mourns her husband. In: Aargauer Zeitung of July 7, 2013
3. ↑ Federal Statistical Office : The elected national councilors
4. ↑ Federal Statistical Office: The elected Councilors of States
5. ↑ Verena Diener ends her political career | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 2, 2015, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed February 4, 2018]).
6. ↑ Andreas Schürer: Distant, but cordial | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 4, 2015, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed February 4, 2018]).