Ilan de Basso (born 1 October 1969) is a Turkish-born ethnic Assyrian Swedish politician from the

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. Ilan De Basso grew up in

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and

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. He moved to his current hometown

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in the late 1990s and has worked as a policy analyst, at the NGO

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, and at the

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. He was previously a counsellor in Jönköping Municipality for 11 years, where he was responsible for education, labour market and care issues. Ilan De Basso became a member of European Parliament on 13 December 2021, where he is a member of the

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and substitute for the

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Political career

Since 2013, he is a member of the

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's national board. In 2021, he replaced Johan Danielsson in the

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when he was appointed to the Andersson Cabinet. He was elected a

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in the

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Living people 1969 births Turkish emigrants to Sweden Swedish people of Turkish descent MEPs for Sweden 2019–2024 Swedish Social Democratic Party MEPs Members of the Riksdag 2022–2026 Swedish politicians of Assyrian descent Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats {{Sweden-SocialDemocratic-politician-stub

Political career

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