Beat Flach

Beat Flach (21 January 1965, Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss politician (GLP).

Beat Flach
Personal details
Born (1965-01-21) January 21, 1965
Bern, Switzerland
Political partyGLP
OccupationPolitician

Political career

Flach was one of the founding members of the cantonal Aargau GLP in 2008. On 8 March 2009 he was elected to the Grand Council of Aargau. In the elections on 23 October 2011, he was elected to the National Council.[1] He is a member of the Legal Affairs Committee, the Security Policy Committee and the Judicial Committee.[2] Flach is involved, among other things, in the areas of human rights (war material exports,[3][4] corporate responsibility,[5] abolition of the "majesty affront article"[6][7]) and social policy (restructuring procedures for the heavily indebted,[8] vocational training for young people with disabilities[9]). He was confirmed in office as a National Councillor in the 2019 general elections.[10]

References
  1. "Beat Flach: «Die Bodenhaftung will ich nicht verlieren»". aargauerzeitung.ch. 2011-10-24. Archived from the original on 2014-12-11.
  2. "Ratsmitglied ansehen". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  3. "Front gegen Bundesrat wird grösser". blick.ch. 2018-08-31.
  4. "Waffenexport-Initiative steht". Tages-Anzeiger (in German). 2019-02-08. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  5. "Economiesuisse lobbyiert erfolgreich gegen mehr Konzernverantwortung – Gegenvorschlag droht Aus – Schweiz – az Aargauer Zeitung". 2017-12-09. Archived from the original on 2017-12-09. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  6. Forster, Christof (2017-08-15). "Majestätsbeleidigungs-Artikel soll weg". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  7. "Beleidigung fremder Staatsoberhäupter soll nicht mehr strafbar sein – Schweiz – az Aargauer Zeitung". 2017-08-15. Archived from the original on 2017-08-15. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  8. "Parlament will Hochverschuldeten helfen". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  9. "Geschäft Ansehen". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  10. "Aargauer Nationalratswahlen – SVP und FDP tauchen und verlieren je einen Sitz". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2019-10-20. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
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