Rising right-wing politician Nina Fehr Düsel – warm but tough

Nina Fehr Düsel lives the life of a modern woman but supports the hardliner values of the conservative Swiss People’s Party. How does this go together? Surnames like Giezendanner, Wasserfallen, Blocher or, as a matter of fact, Fehr are common in the Swiss parliament, where a handful of members follow in their fathers’ footsteps. The hardest thing for these offsprings is to get out of their fathers’ shadows and make their own mark. Fehr Düsel is not worried about that. Of course, she is her father’s daughter, but the 43-year-old is convinced that she will get out of his shadow eventually. It is only a matter of time. Her father Hans Fehr, a staunch hardliner of the Swiss People’s Party, focused on immigrants: Eritreans, Kosovars and above all Muslims. He always had foreigners in mind. When in 2015 he left the House of Representatives in Bern after 20 years, his daughter Nina entered the Zurich cantonal parliament. In 2023, Fehr Düsel entered the House of Representatives where she ...