Emma Maria Wallrup (born 1971) is a

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politician and former member of the

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, the national

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. A former member of the Left Party, she represented

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between July 2014 and June 2018. She had previously been a substitute member of the Riksdag for Jacob Johnson between January 2012 and April 2012. Wallrup is the daughter of

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Inga Wallrup. She has a

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degree from the

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(SLU). She worked for the Swedish Botanical Association (Svenska Botaniska Föreningen) from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 to 2009 she was a project manager for the

Swedish Society for Nature Conservation Sveriges Natur. The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (, previously known as , ''SNF'') is a non-profit, non-partisan, Swedish environmental organization. It is the largest and oldest environmental society in Sweden, with 24 county branches ...

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campaign in

. She worked at Swedish Society for Nature Conservation's Biotopia museum in

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from 2009 to 2010. She was a summer guide at the

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from 2000 to 2012. She was a member of the

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between 2006 and 2010. In February 2018, it was revealed that Left Party MP

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had reported Wallrup to the police for

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him since 2012. Prosecutors however declined to investigate Holm's complaint as the evidence from the

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period - the previous two years - did not indicate any criminal offence had taken place. The Left Party leadership nevertheless excluded Wallrup from the party group in the Riksdag and forbade her from entering the party's offices in the Riksdag. Wallrup resigned from the Riksdag and the Left Party in June 2018 after party's Uppsala County branch voted to remove her from the top position on the party's

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for the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallrup, Emma 1971 births 21st-century Swedish women politicians Living people Members of the Riksdag 2010–2014 Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag from the Left Party (Sweden) People from Uppsala Municipality Women members of the Riksdag