Ricardo Lumengo

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Ricardo Lumengo
Ricardo Lumengo

Ricardo Lumengo (born 22 February 1962) is a Swiss politician, member of the Social Democratic Party of the canton of Berne.

Lumengo was born 1962 in Lussenga, Angola. He was a student activist in Angola from 1979. Persecuted by the dos Santos government, he was forced to emigrate in 1982, entering Switzerland as an asylum seeker. He was recognized as a refugee and granted permanent residence. He studied law at the University of Fribourg.

Lumengo was naturalized as a Swiss citizen in 1997 in Fribourg, and was elected to the Biel municipal council in 2004, and in 2006 to the cantonal council of Berne. In the 2007 federal election, he was elected to the Swiss National Council, as the country's first black national councillor.

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Current Members of the Swiss National Council from the Canton of Berne
Andreas Aebi, Evi Allemann, Adrian Amstutz, André Daguet, Walter Donzé, Therese Frösch, Andrea Geissbühler, Jean-Pierre Graber, Hans Grunder, Ursula Haller, Norbert Hochreutener, Rudolf Joder, Margret Kiener Nellen, Ricardo Lumengo, Christa Markwalder, Simon Schenk, Johann Schneider-Ammann, Hans Stöckli, Franziska Teuscher, Pierre Triponez, Alec von Graffenried, Erich von Siebenthal, Christian Waber, Hansruedi Wandfluh, Christian Wasserfallen, Ursula Wyss
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