Karin Agneta Börjesson (born 1957) is a

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politician and former member of the Riksdag, the national

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. A member of the

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, she represented

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between October 2010 and September 2018. Börjesson is the daughter of merchants Karl-Gustav Börjesson and Ingeborg Börjesson (née Johansson). She was educated in

Kungsbacka Kungsbacka () (old da, Kongsbakke) is a locality and the seat of Kungsbacka Municipality in Halland County, Sweden, with 19,057 inhabitants in 2010. It is one of the most affluent parts of Sweden, in part due to its simultaneous proximity to the ...

and

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in the USA. She studied at the

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and the Nordic College for Public Health. She was head of planning at the

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from 2002 to 2006 during the second Persson government. She was a member of the

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Kungsbacka Municipality Kungsbacka () (old da, Kongsbakke) is a locality and the seat of Kungsbacka Municipality in Halland County, Sweden, with 19,057 inhabitants in 2010. It is one of the most affluent parts of Sweden, in part due to its simultaneous proximity to the ...

between 1988 and 1991; in 2002; and between 2006 and 2007. She was a member of the

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from 1988 to 1998 and of the regional council in Halland County from 2006 to 2007. She was

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of the Green Party from 2007 to 2011.

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