Walter Wobmann

Walter Wobmann
Member of the National Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 December 2003
Constituency	Solothurn
Personal details
Born	(1957-11-21) 21 November 1957 (age 67) Entlebuch, Switzerland
Political party	Swiss People's Party

Walter Wobmann (born 21 November 1957) is a Swiss politician for the Swiss People's Party.

Biography

Wobmann has held an MP position at the National Council of Switzerland since 2003. He is a member of the Campaign for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland.^[1]

Wobmann has campaigned against minarets in Switzerland as president of the committee in support of the Swiss minaret ban referendum in 2009.^[2] In 2016, Wobmann has introduced legislation to disallow the wearing of the hijabs in passport photos; this proposal was likened to the French ban on face covering.^[3][4] This would change current Swiss law, which allows the wearing of religious headscarves in photographs taken for Swiss passports and driver's licenses, so long as the face is identifiable.^[3]

Notes and references

• Site internet de Walter Wobmann Archived 2016-07-31 at the Wayback Machine

References

1. ASIN Bulletin, Élections fédérales 2015: 43 membres de l'ASIN à Berne, n°178, december 2015, p.3
2. Stephanie Nebehay, Swiss voters back ban on minarets in referendum, Reuters.
3. May Bulman, Swiss politician says hijab should be banned from passports, Independent (September 25, 2016).
4. Damien Sharkov, Switzerland Moves Towards Burka Ban With Majority in Parliament, Newsweek (September 28, 2016).