Kristina Eva Martina Winberg (born 27 May 1965) is a Swedish former

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who was a

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(MEP) representing the

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, part of the

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. She was elected to the European Parliament in the

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. In 2019, she was excluded from the Sweden Democrats.

Career

Winberg sold advertising for the ''Jönköpings-Posten'' newspaper for 8 years, was a

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for 15 years, and then became a

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caring for people with

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. In 2010 she was a candidate for the

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; she has been a member of the

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since 2010. Winberg was launched as her party's top candidate to the European Parliament on 27 January 2014. On 25 May 2014, Winberg and

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became the first representatives of the party to be elected

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. In December 2016, she was barred from attending a meeting with the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister,

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, because the state of Israel considers the Sweden Democrats to have "sometimes neo-Nazi views", according to the

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. In protest, Becky Norton Dunlop, the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow at

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, who served on the transition team of president-elect

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, canceled the meeting. A few days before the 2019 elections to the European Parliament, Winberg was excluded from the party ballot of the Sweden Democrats, and soon after that she was forced to leave the party.

References

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