Åsa Ingrid Gunilla Westlund (born 19 May 1976 in Anderstorp,

Jönköping County Jönköping County () is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Halland, Västra Götaland, Östergötland, Kalmar and Kronoberg. The total county population was 356,291 inhabitants in September 2017. The capita ...

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) is a Swedish politician who has been

Member of the Riksdag Members of Parliament (Swedish language, Swedish: ''riksdagsledamöter'', singular: ''riksdagsledamot'') in Sweden sit in the Riksdag. Description ''Members of Parliament'' refers to the elected members of the Riksdag. In Swedish, an MP is us ...

since 2014, representing Stockholm County. In the Riksdag, she is chairman of the Committee on Finance since 2020. She was previously a

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for the

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, part of the

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, from 2004 to 2014.

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Åsa Westlund at the Social Democratic Party
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