Kerstin Margareta Lundgren (born 14 January 1955) is a

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. She has been a

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of the

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since 2002, taking up seat number 2 for Stockholm County's constituency. Since the September 24, 2018,

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election, Lundgren was elected as third deputy speaker and serving as the current

Third Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag The speaker of the Riksdag is assisted by three deputy speakers who are also elected by a vote in the chamber. Traditionally, the second, third and fourth largest parties gets to name one of their members for these offices. There is some disagree ...

. She is also a member of the

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Governing Council.

Political career

In the Swedish parliament, Lundgren has been serving on the

Constitution Committee The Constitution Committee is a cross-party select committee of the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The committee's remit is "to examine the constitutional implications of all public bills coming befo ...

from 2002 to 2006, on Foreign Affairs since 2006. She is also a member of the War-delegation since 2018.”Kerstin Lundgren (C)”
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Sveriges riksdag The Riksdag ( , ; also or , ) is the parliament and the supreme decision-making body of the Kingdom of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral parliament with 349 members (), elected proportionally and serving, since 1994, f ...

''. 28 September 2020. She is currently the foreign policy spokesperson of the Centre Party. In addition to her role in parliament, Lundgren has been serving as a member of the Swedish delegation to the

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The Assembly is made up of ...

since 2007. As a member of the Centre Party, she is part of the

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE; , ADLE) was a transnational alliance between two European political parties, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and the European Democratic Party. ALDE had political ...

group. She is currently the vice-chairwoman of the Assembly's Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World; a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights; and a member of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by

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(Monitoring Committee). Alongside

Boris Tsilevitch Boris Leonidovich Tsilevitch (, ; born March 26, 1956) is a Latvian politician, physicist and mathematician of Jewish descent. He is a member of the Harmony party and a former deputy of the Saeima. Early and personal life Cilevičs was born ...

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(2015–2017) and later

Titus Corlățean Titus Corlățean (; born 11 January 1968) is a Romanian politician and diplomat, former Minister of Justice and of Foreign Affairs. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), part of the Party of European Socialists, and was elected t ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

(since 2018), she serves as the Assembly's co-rapporteur on

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. Prior to that mandate, she was the rapporteur on the impact of the

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on the Council of Europe. In 2020, Lundgren joined the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.Members
Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

References

External links

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at the

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