After 12 years in the executive, Geneva State Councilor Antonio Hodgers announced his resignation on Wednesday. A significant figure in the end of the lake, the elected green organizes a press conference at 12:30 p.m. The complementary election will take place this fall.
Elected to the Geneva Council of State in 2013, Antonio Hodgers was in charge of planning, housing, energy and territory issues for more than twelve years. Among the significant files led by its department are in particular the Climate Bill, the Méga-Project of Urban Development Praille-Acacias Vernets (PAV) or even the energy sanitation of buildings and its financing.
He was also a national councilor, president of the Greens and deputy to the great Geneva council. He also got his weapons in younger politics as a member of the Parliament of young people in Meyrin. Born in Buenos Aires in 1976 of two resistant parents, shortly before the military dictatorship, he arrived in Switzerland with his mother as a political refugee in 1981.
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Tania Sazpinar, Céline Argento, Charlotte Frossard
