Over 150 members of young Swiss Greens read their two new co-presidents at the Aarau assembly of delegates on Saturday: Julia Kng (ZG), 19, and Oleg Gafner (VD), 18. They still adopted their party program and defended the initiative for more affordable housing while camping.
Gewhlt! Wir haben ein neues Co-Prsidium. Gratulation year @Julia_Kueng und @GafnerOleg ?? #mvjgspic.twitter.com/Tlg0hCDcj9– Junge Grne Schweiz (@jGruene_jVertEs) January 18, 2020
The new co-president Julia Kng got involved in the climate strike and the Zug women strike alongside the Young Greens. For her, her party means: environmentalist, united, anti-capitalist, feminist and democratic. I fight for a and I am ready to invest myself, explains the young woman in a press release.
Oleg Gafner is also motivated to push the Young Greens even further. He joined the Young Greens at the age of 14. As a former co-president of the Young Greens in Vaud and a member of the Young Greens in Switzerland, he can already draw on a wealth of experience.
Another world is possible
The Young Greens have adopted their party program. They are calling for a climate-neutral Switzerland by 2030, the overtaking of capitalism, 100% organic farming and the ban on industrial farming.
The Young Greens have camped Aarau in more than 20 tents to encourage the Swiss to vote on February 9 in favor of the popular initiative of ASLOCA for affordable housing. Housing is becoming more and more expensive and it is difficult for low-income people to find affordable apartments, especially families in the city, they say.
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