Mattea Meyer

Meyer was born 9 November 1987 in Basel, Switzerland to an agricultural engineer father and a kindergarten teacher mother.

[1] In December 2019 Meyer announced that together with Cédric Wermuth, she would be a candidate for the presidency of the SP Switzerland.

[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.