Verena Diener

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

Life

Verena Diener grew up in Flaach on, is a qualified primary school teacher and dyslexia therapist and worked as a lecturer in ecology. It is Widowed, mother of two daughters and two sons care.

Policy

Servant was a member of the Green Party of Switzerland, who presided as President from 1992 to 1995. From 1987 to 1997 she was the National Council, and from 1995 to 2007 Councillor of the Canton of Zurich, where she headed the Directorate of Health.

2004 saw servant because of political disagreements from the Green Party and, together with the Zurich National Martin Bäumle the Green Liberal Party ( GLP) of the Canton of Zurich.

For the new party she ran for the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2007 for both the National Council and the Council of States. She reached - although it occupied the last place on the party list - the re- entry into the National Council after ten years of absence, but made ​​it on the first ballot for the Senate only to fourth place.

For the second round, in which the second mandate was still up for grabs, first talks between GLP and SP were held to set up a joint candidate of the center-left parties against the SVP President Ueli Maurer. However, these talks ended without success. First held Chantal Galladé ( SP), which scored more votes than servants in the first round, firm to another candidacy. After Verena Diener also announced that they would compete in the second round, Galladé pulled her candidacy. Finally scored Verena Diener 25 November 2007 199'594 votes, almost 30,000 more than their competitor Maurer.