Agnes ''Helén'' Pettersson (in the

Riksdag The Riksdag ( , ; also or , ) is the parliament and the parliamentary sovereignty, supreme decision-making body of the Kingdom of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral parliament with 349 members (), elected proportional rep ...

''Helén Pettersson in

Umeå Umeå ( , , , locally ; ; ; ; ) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, Umeå is the largest Urban areas in Sweden, locality in Norrland and the t ...

'') (born 4 April 1972 in Umeå Parish) is a Swedish

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. She has been a

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of the

since 2006. She currently takes up seat number 109 for the constituency of

Västerbotten County Västerbotten County (), sometimes called Westrobothnia, is a county or '' län'' in the north of Sweden. It shares the borders with the counties of Västernorrland, Jämtland, and Norrbotten, as well as the Norwegian county of Nordland and the ...

. She was first assigned the Environment and Agriculture Committee, a committee in which she served in until 2014. After 2014 she was assigned the Labour Market Committee. She has also been an alternate for the Swedish delegation to the

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. Since 2012 Pettersson has been the spokesperson for Arbetarnas bildningsförbund (ABF).

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