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Franco Cavalli

Politician

Franco Cavalli is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Franco Cavalli · فرانكو كافالى · فرانكو كافالي				[sources]
Alias	Cavalli, Franco · Francesco Cavalli · فرانكو كافالي				[sources]
Birth date	1942-07-03				[sources]
Place of birth	Locarno				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Franco				[sources]
Last name	Cavalli				[sources]
Political association	Parti socialiste suisse · Social Democratic Party of Switzerland				[sources]
Spoken language	German · Italian				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national · Prof. Dr. med.				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q120654				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (1995-2007) · National Council (member, 2003-2007)				[sources]
Education	University of Bern				[sources]
Religion	Cavalli				[sources]
Address	Tessin · Verscio				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Législatif communal à Verscio, Locarno et Muralto, Législatif cantonal Grand Conseil du Canton Tessin de 1987 à 1995; Président du Groupe socialiste depuis 1999

— Swiss Federal Assembly, 2025-10-13

Swiss physician and politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Swiss National Council	1995-12-04	2007-05-29

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,600

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Swiss Federal Assembly898

Current and recent Members of the Swiss Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung)

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,922

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata334,594

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,278

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-5889c58c-c3a1-49f8-9a53-c2219d07bdc2 · ch-parl-councillor-309

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