Zug,17.04.2014

SP party fields career diplomat

It has been announced that the leadership of the SP party in Zug has put forward Christina Bürgi, a career diplomat, as a possible candidate for nomination in the elections for the cantonal government later this year. The final decision will be taken by members of the SP party on Thursday 29 April. If successful in the elections in October, the SP party will regain a seat it lost in 2007.
 
As the party revealed in its communication, Bürgi has been representing the Swiss Confederation all over the world in recent years. With her national and international contacts, the party feels that the canton could well benefit from her experience, which no other candidates would be able to match.
 
Bürgi read History, German, English and the History of Art at the University of Zurich and began working for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1992. In her time there she has served in Rome, Rabat, Tokyo, Luxembourg and Paris, her field of expertise being finance with regard to foreign policy.
 
Furthermore she holds a doctorate in history and her thesis dealt with "crisis years and golden times" in reference to the canton of Zug.
 
Between 2004 and 2008 she belonged to the board of the cantonal SP party and from 2006 and 2008 she was a cantonal parliamentarian. In her free time she enjoys travel and photography, is active in sport, plays the piano and writes detective novels.
 
She currently lives with her husband in Risch.