Lars Eskil Anders Erlandsson (born 25 January 1957) is a

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who served as Minister for Rural Affairs from 2010 to 2014, having previously served as

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from 2006 to 2010. A member of the Centre Party, he was MP of the

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from 1994 to 2019.

Biography

Erlandsson is the son of Sven Arne and Inga Gullie Erlandsson. He comes from Torpa in

Ljungby Ljungby () is the Urban areas in Sweden, central locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 inhabitants in 2015. Ljungby was instituted in 1829 as a ''köping'', or ''market town'', and did not become a municipality o ...

and lives on the farm Stackarp in Torpa where his brother is running the farm. By profession he is an agricultural technologist with a graduate of SLU

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. He also studied at the

Växjö University Linnaeus University (LNU) () is a state university in the Swedish historical province (''landskap'') Småland, with campuses located in Växjö and Kalmar. Linnaeus University was established in 2010 by a merger of former Växjö University a ...

from 1989 to 1992.

Political career

From 1983 to 1994, Erlandsson was a

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. He's since 1994 a member of the

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for

Kronoberg County Kronoberg County (; ) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. Kronoberg is one of three counties in the province of Småland. It borders the counties of Skåne, Halland, Jönköping, Kalmar, and Blekinge. Its capital is the city of V ...

, but on leave since 2006 after becoming

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. He was a member of the Environment and

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from 1998 to 2002 and Chairman of the

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from 2002 to 2006. He has also served as deputy of the Housing Committee, the Environment and Agriculture Committee, the Taxation Committee, the Enterprise Committee and the Committee on EU Affairs. From 2002 to 2006, Eskilsson was also alternately chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Foreign and Defence Committee. In March 2019 Erlandsson was forced to resign from the parliament over groping allegations from four female MPs.

Personal life

He has been married to Susanne Adlercreutz since April 2012 with whom he has a son, born in July 2012 and a daughter born in December 2013.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Erlandsson, Eskil 1957 births Living people Male feminists Members of the Riksdag 1994–1998 Members of the Riksdag 1998–2002 Members of the Riksdag 2002–2006 Members of the Riksdag 2006–2010 Members of the Riksdag 2010–2014 Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag from the Centre Party (Sweden) Swedish feminists Ministers for agriculture of Sweden People from Ljungby Municipality