Mauro Poggia

Mauro Poggia ( born April 25, 1959 in Moutier, Canton of Bern; homeland justified in Meyrin ) is a Swiss lawyer and politician. He is a member of the Mouvement Citoyens Genevois (MCG ) and sat for this 2011 to 2013 in the National Council. In November 2013 he became the first MCG representatives elected to the State Council, the Geneva cantonal government.

Life

Mauro Poggias parents emigrated from Piedmont in Switzerland. Although he is born in the Bernese Moutier, but grew up in Geneva, where he also was 1978, the Matura examination and studied until 1981 jurisprudence. After two years in the law firm of Jean Jacques Hodel he started his own business as a lawyer at the age of 24 years, where he also focused on areas of law that have been processed less frequently by other lawyers, such as sports law, medical law and insurance law. Among other things, he was ( which is regarded as so far the heaviest in the history of Swiss football sport ) with the processes at the foul by Pierre -Albert Chapuisat Lucien Favre and concerned about the non-tested for HIV blood products in the Central Laboratory of the Swiss Red Cross.

Relatively late he came to politics. He ran as a representative of Italians abroad in the Italian Senate elections of 2008 on the list of UDC. Then he joined the CVP. As he got there no promising list place, he moved in 2009 to the MCG and was directly elected to the cantonal parliament. In 2011 he became the first representative of the MCG election to the National Council. At the cantonal executive elections in November 2013, he reached the first round in sixth place, in the second round with 41'127 ​​votes seventh place and moved so that the first member of the MCG in the government of the Canton of Geneva. Therefore, he had to relinquish his mandate according to the National Council of the cantonal constitution; for him moved by MCG President Roger Golay.

In addition to his legal profession and political activity Poggia is also President of the Association Suisse des Assurés ( ASSUAS, Swiss Association of insured persons) in the Canton of Geneva.

Poggia is married to his second wife with a North African woman who grew up in Switzerland, for the sake of it from Christianity to Sufism, a denomination of Islam, converted. From his first marriage he has two children from his second marriage one child.