| Valerie Piller Carrard | |
| Office: | Member of the National Council of Switzerland |
| Birth Date: | 9 September 1978 |
| Party: | Social Democratic Party of Switzerland |
| Termstart: | 2011 |
| Constituency: | Canton of Fribourg |
| Birth Place: | Billens, Fribourg |
Valérie Piller Carrard (born, 9 September 1978, Billens, Fribourg) is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a current member of the National Council.[1]
For a while she was an accountant at a real estate broker.[2] Today, she is the president of Pro Familia Switzerland, an NGO focused on the welfare of the families.[3]
Her interest towards politics grew in March 1993, as the National Council refused to elect Christiane Brunner to the Federal Council. She became a member of the Grand Council of Fribourg at the age of twenty-three in 2001, a seat she held until 2011. She was also in the executive council of Gletterens between 2004 and 2009. She was elected into the National Council by a tight margin of twenty-three votes in the Federal Elections in 2011 and was re-elected in 2015 and 2019. In the elections to the Council of State of Fribourg in 2018, she was a candidate, but was not supported by the Green Party,[4] and lost to Didier Castella of the FDP.The Liberals (FDP) in March 2018.[5] In April 2021 she was announced as the candidate for the SP for Cantonal Elections to the Swiss Council of States in November 2021.[6] [7] From 2008 to 2017 she served as the president for the SP in Broye.
She supports a more representative participation of women in politics and in defense of the press freedom she has taken up a Godfatherhood for the imprisoned Belarusian journalist Ala Sharko in April 2021.[8] Concerned about the surging sugar consume of the youth, she advocates for a better guidance through regulations from the state.[9]
She is married and has 3 children. Her places of origin are Rechthalten and Font in Estavayer-le-Lac.