Mattea Meyer

From 2009 to 2013 she was Vice-President of the Young Socialists of Switzerland.^[1] From 2011 to 2015 she was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Zurich.^[1] In 2015 she was re-elected in her constituency with the best result of her party, but in April 2015, the cantonal party nominated her as a candidate for the 2015 National Council elections.^[4] Since the 30 November 2015, she represents the SP in the National Council of Switzerland^[5] and resigned as a cantonal councilor. In her first legislature in the National Council she was a member of the Finance Commission and the Immunity Commission of the National Council.^[1] In the parliamentary elections in 2019, Meyer was re-elected as a national councilor.^[6] In her second legislature she took a seat in the commission for health and social security (SGK) and remained in the immunity commission.^[1] In December 2019 Meyer announced that together with Cédric Wermuth, she would be a candidate for the presidency of the SP Switzerland.^[7] Succeeding Christian Levrat, they were elected on 17 October 2020.^[8]

Meyer is part of the party's majority anti-capitalist and left wing, with the PS representing a more left-wing social democracy when compared to other European social-democratic sister parties.^[9] She promotes a welcoming approach towards the asylum seekers which she sees as a normal answer for a country which exports weapons to war zones.^[10] During the COVID-19 pandemic she demanded that the Federal and Cantonal (provincial) Governments announce their measures in a coordinated manner.^[11] She defends the liberty of expression and assumed a godparenthood of the Belarusian political activist Anastasiya Mirontsava.^[12]

Mattea Meyer is the partner of fellow SP politician Marco Kistler. The couple have two children, a daughter born in 2017 and in 2021.