Walter Wobmann | |
Office: | Member of the National Council |
Term Start: | 1 December 2003 |
Constituency: | Solothurn |
Birth Date: | 21 November 1957 |
Birth Place: | Entlebuch, Switzerland |
Party: | Swiss People's Party |
Walter Wobmann (born 21 November 1957) is a Swiss politician for the Swiss People's Party.
Wobmann has held an MP position at the National Council of Switzerland since 2003. He is a member of the Campaign for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland.[1]
Wobmann has campaigned against minarets in Switzerland as president of the committee in support of the Swiss minaret ban referendum in 2009.[2] In 2016, Wobmann has introduced legislation to disallow the wearing of the hijabs in passport photos; this proposal was likened to the French ban on face covering.[3] [4] This would change current Swiss law, which allows the wearing of religious headscarves in photographs taken for Swiss passports and driver's licenses, so long as the face is identifiable.[3]