Prime Minister Valls is 50% of Ticino origin (Biasca region), as his mum is of the well known GALFETTI family
http://www.bilan.ch/economie-les-plu...e-manuel-valls
That his father is of Spanish origin, a Spanish painter, makes a unique combination, beside his having been born in Barcelona
Amazing, for a long while no Ticinesi Bundesrat, but now a Ticinesi Prime Minister of France