Lars Pontus Andersson (born 2 September 1992 in

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) is a Swedish educator and politician of the

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party. He has been a

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since 2021.

Biography

Early life

Andersson was born in 1992 and grew up in

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outside

. He has spoken with a

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since childhood and has discussed how it has affected some of his public speeches. Andersson studied at

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before training to become a teacher. In 2014, Andersson wrote that he was fired from a teaching contract due to his association with the Sweden Democrats and because of views he had shared on

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criticising the European Union and giving welfare to illegal immigrants.

Political career

Andersson has been a member of the Sweden Democrats since 2014 and was elected as a municipal councilor on Helsingborg's City Council that same year. From 2014 to 2015 he was district chairman of

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(SDU) in Skåne County and for the

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served as a press secretary for the SD. Following splits and controversies in the SDU during the spring of 2015, Andersson gave a series of interviews in which he criticised the more hardline stance of SDU's chairmen

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and

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. He subsequently endorsed Tobias Andersson and

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for chairmanship of the SDU over

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. The trio advocated increased cooperation with the Sweden Democrats and said that the current leadership has failed in this. After Ohlson won leadership of the SDU and the Sweden Democrats announced it would cut ties with the SDU, Andersson became a founding member of the new

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youth-wing and was appointed vice-president. On 4 April 2014 two men were arrested for harassing Andersson while he was making a school visit to

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and both were ordered to pay a fine to Andersson. In February 2017, Andersson received attention for arguing during a

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interview that the military should be deployed to help the police during the 2017 Rinkeby riots. A year later Swedish Prime Minister

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would make a similar statement. In 2021, he became a member of the Riksdag for Skåne County following the resignation of

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andersson, Pontus Members of the Riksdag from the Sweden Democrats 1992 births Living people Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag 2022–2026 Swedish educators People from Helsingborg