Lisa Mazzone previously served as a member of the Council of States from 2019 to 2023, the National Council from 2015 to 2019 and on the Grand Council of Geneva from 2013 to 2015.
18 Facts About Lisa Mazzone
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Lisa Mazzone has been the youngest member elected to parliament at the time.
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Lisa Mazzone has one Swiss German grandmother, Beatrice Gmur, who originally hailed from St Gallen, was employed there.
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Lisa Mazzone was raised in Versoix, where she attended the local schools, obtaining her Matura from College Andre-Chavanne.
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In 2006, aged 18, Lisa Mazzone took part in the establishment of the Youth Parliament at Versoix.
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Lisa Mazzone served as president of the Geneva party between March 2014 and March 2016.
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Lisa Mazzone then became Party Vice-President for the Suisse Romande region in succession to Robert Cramer on 16 April 2016.
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Lisa Mazzone sat as a municipal councillor in Le Grand-Saconnex - the multi-cultural central Geneva municipality which includes both the city airport and several major United Nations facilities within its boundaries - from 2011 till June 2013.
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Lisa Mazzone was elected to the Swiss parliament on 18 October 2015, becoming Switzerland's youngest member of parliament.
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Lisa Mazzone delivered her ten-minute maiden speech to the National Council on 30 November 2015, which was her first day in the parliament.
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In October 2018 Lisa Mazzone announced that in the 2019 national elections she would stand not for re-election to the National Council but as a candidate for election to the Council of States, which is the upper house of the national parliament.
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Many of the slopes around the foreshore at the western end of Lake Geneva are reassuringly gentle: Lisa Mazzone became a passionate advocate for cycling when she was barely a teenager.
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Lisa Mazzone worked as a co-ordinator for the Geneva Pro-Velo association between 2010 and 2014.
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Lisa Mazzone has subsequently become the association's president for the francophone region surrounding Geneva.
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In February 2015 Lisa Mazzone came to prominence as a leader in the Grand Council of a small group of deputies supporting the so-called "stop bunkers" movement.
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Lisa Mazzone is co-president, along with Priska Seiler Graf of the Social Democratic Party in Zurich, of the "Environment and Health Coalition for responsible air transport" created in September 2016 by 20 like-minded Swiss associations and organisations.
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Lisa Mazzone is in a relationship with Christoph Lenz, originally from Schaffhausen.
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Lisa Mazzone is a dual citizen of Switzerland and Italy.