Mauro Poggia

Mauro Poggia
Member of the National Council of Switzerland
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 October 2011
Constituency	Geneva
Personal details
Born	25 April 1959 Moutier, Bern
Nationality	Italian Swiss
Political party	Geneva Citizens' Movement
Other political affiliations	Christian Democratic People's Party (until 2009) Union of Christian and Centre Democrats
Profession	Lawyer
Religion	Sufism
Website	poggia.blog.tdg.ch

Mauro Poggia (born 25 April 1959 in Moutier) is a Swiss-Italian politician and lawyer. He is a member of the Geneva Citizens' Movement (MCG) and has been a member of the National Council since the October 2011 election.

Formerly a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP), Poggia left to join the MCG in 2009. He was elected to the Grand Council of Geneva at the 2009 election. He was elected as the MCG's sole member of the National Council at the 2011 election, representing Geneva.

He ran for the Senate of Italy in the 2008 election for the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats,^[1] seeking to represent Italians abroad.

He is a convert to Sufism, the religion of his wife.^[2]

Footnotes

1. ^ "il devient un populiste «réfléchi»". Le Matin. 15 July 2009. http://archives.lematin.ch/LM/LMS/-/article-2009-07-329/il-ne-manque-pas-d8217air-mauro-poggia. Retrieved 29 October 2011. 
2. ^ "Me Mauro Poggia ou la course en tandem du battant solitaire". Tribune de Genève. 3 November 2009. http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu/mauro-poggia-course-tandem-battant-solitaire-2009-11-02. Retrieved 29 October 2011.