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Giovanni Merlini

Politician

Giovanni Merlini 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	Giovanni Merlini · جيوڤانى ميرلينى				[sources]
Alias	Merlini, Giovanni				[sources]
Birth date	1962-05-27				[sources]
Place of birth	Locarno				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Giovanni				[sources]
Last name	Merlini				[sources]
Political association	FDP.The Liberals · PLR.Les Libéraux-Radicaux				[sources]
Spoken language	German · Italian				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national · Dr. iur.				[sources]
Website	www.giovannimerlini.ch				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q29044353				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (2014-2019) · National Council (member, 2011-2015) · National Council (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Education	University of Bern				[sources]
Religion	Merlini				[sources]
Address	Minusio · Tessin				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-01-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Presidente del PRL Ticino: da febbraio 2000 a gennaio 2010; Consiglio comunale (Minusio): da aprile 1992 ad aprile 1996; Municipio (Minusio): da aprile 1996 ad aprile 2000; Gran Consiglio: da aprile 1995 ad aprile 2011

— 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	2014-03-10	2015-11-29

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,647

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 Legislators57,728

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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Wikidata335,233

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions540,381

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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