Fabian Molina

Fabian Molina (born 8 July 1990) is a Swiss politician who currently serves on the National Council (Switzerland) for the Social Democratic Party since 2018.[1] He succeeded Tim Guldimann and became the youngest member of the National Council (Switzerland) ever to be elected aged 28.[2] He previously served as President of the Young Socialists between 2014 and 2016 as well as on the Cantonal Council of Zürich from 2017 to 2018.[3] Since 2019, he is co-president of Swissaid.[4]

Fabian Molina
Official portrait, 2019
Member of National Council (Switzerland)
Assumed office
15 March 2018
Preceded byTim Guldimann
ConstituencyCanton of Zürich
President of Young Socialists Switzerland
In office
16 March 2014 – 31 May 2016
Personal details
Born
Fabian Molina

(1990-07-08) 8 July 1990
Uster, Switzerland
Citizenship
  • Switzerland
  • Chile (automatically)
Political partySocial Democratic Party
ResidenceZürich, Switzerland
Alma materUniversity of Zürich (dropped out)
WebsiteOfficial website

Early life and education

Molina was born 8 July 1990 in Uster, Switzerland to Jorge Molina, a print shop owner, who came to Switzerland from Chile in 1982 after being imprisoned thirteen times for socialist activisim and being a supporter of Salvador Allende.[5][6] He has two elder half-brothers and a younger brother and primarily was raised in Illnau-Effretikon. Molina completed his Matura in 2011, after failing one year prior and continued to study at University of Zürich where he majored in History and Philosophy (didn't graduate).[7]

Political career

Fabian Molina joined the SP in 2006. From 2007 to 2009, he was a board member of SP Illnau-Effretikon. At the same time, in 2008, he founded the social democratic youth wing (Juso) Illnau-Effretikon. In 2009, he was elected Co-President of the Juso Canton Zurich. In 2010, he was elected to the municipal council of Illnau-Effretikon, where he served until his resignation in 2016.[8] In 2015, he was a candidate for the Swiss National Council on the list of SP in the Canton of Zurich.[9] On national level, Fabian Molina presided the Juso Switzerland from March 2014 and announced his resignation as a president in June 2016 at Juso Switzerland's 2016 annual meeting and expressed a desire for a female successor.[10] In August 2017, he joined the Zurich Cantonal Council for the Pfäffikon constituency.[8] On 15 March 2018 he moved up as National Council after his predecessor Tim Guldimann's resignation.[11][12] In the 2019 parliamentary elections, Molina was able to defend its seat in the National Council with 81,905 votes.[13]

Political profile

Molina was Youth Secretary at the Swiss national labour union Unia from 2011 to 2014. He is also a member of Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Group Switzerland without Army (GSoA), Public Eye, and Solidar Suisse. From early 2017 to 2018, Molina held a position as a research assistant at the Swiss non-governmental organisation Swissaid[8] and has been Co-President since 6 June 2019.[14]

A prominent figure in national media, he has raised regular attention both in national and international press. He called, for instance, to hoist the multi-coloured Peace Flag instead of the Swiss Flag on 1 August 2014 (Switzerland's national day) to commemorate 100 years of the general mobilization for World War I.[15] In 2015, in cooperation with other political groups, Molina and his Juso took the referendum against the new Intelligence Service Act (Nachrichtendienstgesetz).[16] Furthermore, he took a leading role in the vote on the popular initiative "Stop Speculation on Food Crops" ("Keine Spekulation mit Nahrungsmitteln!") that came to a popular vote on 2 February 2016, and was rejected.[17]

References
  1. "Ratsmitglied ansehen". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  2. "Fabian Molina: Zu Besuch in der WG des neuen SP-Nationalrats". Schweizer Illustrierte (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  3. "Zürcher Fabian Molina zum neuen JUSO-Präsidenten gewählt". SWI swissinfo.ch (in German). 2014-03-15. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  4. AG, Station. ""Without agriculture we cannot live"". Swissaid. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  5. "Fabian Molina Juso-Präsident: Herkunft Eltern Familie privat". Schweizer Illustrierte (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  6. Bild), Michael Rüegg (Text und (2012-10-21). "Zürich - Fabian Molina: Der brave Revoluzzer der Jungsozialisten". Limmattaler Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  7. Vuille, Christof (2017-02-01). "Jetzt droht SP-Youngster mit Polit-Comeback: Juso-Molina bricht Studium in Spanien ab". Blick (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  8. "Fabian Molina". SP Schweiz (in German). Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  9. Hotz, Stefan (October 19, 2015). "SP erobert überraschend zwei zusätzliche Sitze | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  10. Marti, Simon (12 March 2016). "Fabian Molina (25) konzentriert sich aufs Studieren: Juso-Präsident tritt zurück". Blick (in German). Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  11. "Ratsmitglied ansehen". www.parlament.ch (in German).
  12. "Zweieinhalb Jahre im Amt – SP-Nationalrat Tim Guldimann hat genug". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). February 18, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  13. "Zürcher Nationalratssitze – Sechs zusätzliche Sitze für das Klima". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). October 19, 2019. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  14. "SWISSAID: Neues Co-Präsidium mit Bastienne Joerchel und Fabian Molina". SWISSAID. June 6, 2019. Archived from the original on July 4, 2019. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  15. Lenz, Von Christoph (29 July 2014). "Angst vor Nationalismus: Juso-Chef will keine Schweizer Fahnen am 1. August". Blick (in German). Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  16. "Nachrichtendienst-Gesetz – Referendum gegen das Nachrichtendienstgesetz steht". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). February 4, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  17. Bundeskanzlei, BK. "Politische Rechte, Volksinitiativen" (in German). Retrieved October 24, 2018.
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