Chantal Galladé

Chantal Galladé
Chantal Galladé in 2015
Member of the Cantonal Council of Zürich
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 August 1997
ConstituencyWinterthur
Member of the National Council (Switzerland)
In office
1 December 2003 – 6 December 2018
Personal details
Born (1972-12-17) 17 December 1972 (age 52)
Winterthur, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland
Political partyGreen Liberal Party
Other political
affiliations		Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (until February 2019)
Children2
ResidenceWinterthur[1]
Alma materUniversity of Zurich
Occupationeducation researcher and politician
Websitechantalgallade.ch (in German)

Chantal Juliane Galladé (born 17 December 1972) is a Swiss politician who currently serves on the Cantonal Council of Zürich for the Green Liberal Party.[2] She previously served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 2003 to 2018 for the Social Democratic Party.[3]

Early life and education

Galladé was born on 17 December 1972 in Winterthur, Switzerland, to Georges-Roger Galladé, an attorney who was originally from Isérables in Valais, and Erika Galladé. Her father died by suicide in 1984 using his army rifle.[4] She had a grandfather who was Jewish.[5]

She completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1989 to 1992 and studied concurrently to complete her Maturity. She completed studies in pedagogy and political science at the University of Zürich.

Professional career

Galladé was engaged as commissioner for apprenticeships, and professor at the cantonal college.[6]

Political career

In 1990, Chantal Galladé became a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP). She co-initiated the youth parliament (Jugendparlament), the youth lobby (Jugendlobby) and the cultural center (Kulturzentrum) in Winterthur in 1994. Three years later, Galladé was elected as member of the SP party in the parliament of the Canton of Zürich by 2003.[6] Since December 2003, she's member of the Swiss National Council,[7] among others focussing on the fields of youth,[8] sustainability[9] and national security policy.

At the beginning of June 2018, the eligible voters elected Galladé school president of the district school administration (Kreisschulpflege) in Winterthur Stadt-Töss. Due to the full-time office, she will step down from the National Council at the end of November 2018.[10] In February 2019, she decided to change to the Green Liberal Party (GLP) as she didn't agree with the SP, who opposed further cooperation between the European Union and Switzerland due to Workers' Unions concerns.[11]

Personal life

Chantal Galladé is the mother of a daughter born in 2005.[6] She was in a relationship with Daniel Jositsch.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Galladé Chantal". Federal Assembly. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  2. ^ https://www.kantonsrat.zh.ch/mitglieder/mitglied?id=0c71d35e1c4649a7b24a460e7bb28d7b
  3. ^ "Ratsmitglied ansehen". Federal Assembly. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  4. ^ "Le nouvelliste 6. April 1984 — e-newspaperarchives.ch". www.e-newspaperarchives.ch (in German). Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Galladés – wie die Mutter, so die Tochter?". TeleZüri (in Swiss High German). 29 January 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  6. ^ a b c "Über mich" (in German). chantalgallade.ch. Archived from the original on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  7. ^ "SP, FDP und SVP sind die grossen Wahlgewinner" (in German). Schweiz aktuell. 18 October 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Fokus: Junge für Berufswelt begeistern" (in German). 10vor10. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  9. ^ Matthias Scharrer (2 October 2015). "Chantal Galladé liegt im Umweltranking noch vor den Grünen auf Platz 1" (in German). Limmattaler Zeitung. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  10. ^ "Chantal Galladé tritt aus dem Nationalrat zurück" (in German). Limmattaler Zeitung. 8 July 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  11. ^ Seiler, Barbara (27 February 2019). "Von der SP zur GLP - «Warum haben Sie die Partei gewechselt, Frau Galladé?»". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (in German). Archived from the original on 27 February 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  12. ^ Susan Boos and Kaspar Surber (22 November 2007). "Die Linke und der Ruf nach dem Sheriff" (in German). WOZ Die Wochenzeitung 47/2007. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
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