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Urs Schläfli

Politician

Urs Schläfli 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	Urs Schläfli · ارس ستشلافلى				[sources]
Alias	Schläfli, Urs · Urs Schlaefli				[sources]
Birth date	1963-07-02 · 1963-07-20				[sources]
Place of birth	Soleure · Solothurn				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Urs				[sources]
Last name	Schläfli				[sources]
Political association	Christian Democratic People's Party · Parti démocrate-chrétien suisse				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national · Meisterlandwirt				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q15852245				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (2011-2015) · National Council (member, 2011-2015)				[sources]
Religion	Schläfli				[sources]
Address	Deitingen · Soleure				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-02-15	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Legislative des Kantons (Kantonsrat): von Mai 2009 bis Dezember 2011; Exekutive der Gemeinde Deitingen (Bürgergemeindepräsident): seit August 2009

— Swiss Federal Assembly, 2025-10-13

Swiss politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Conseil national	2011-12-12	2015-11-29

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons271,351

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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

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,278

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,633

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,062

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata326,576

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ch-parl-councillor-4122 · evpo-f785d0b8-3698-4894-8872-7ca9308f7ad9

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