Emma Maria Wallrup (born 1971) is a

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politician and former member of the

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, the national legislature. A former member of the Left Party, she represented Uppsala County between July 2014 and June 2018. She had previously been a substitute member of the Riksdag for Jacob Johnson between January 2012 and April 2012. Wallrup is the daughter of theologian Inga Wallrup. She has a biology degree from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). She worked for the Swedish Botanical Association (Svenska Botaniska Föreningen) from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 to 2009 she was a project manager for the

Swedish Society for Nature Conservation Sveriges Natur. The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation ( sv, Naturskyddsföreningen, previously known as , ''SNF'') is a non-profit, non-partisan, Swedish environmental organization. It is the largest and oldest environmental society in Swede ...

's climate change campaign in Uppsala County. She worked at Swedish Society for Nature Conservation's Biotopia museum in Uppsala from 2009 to 2010. She was a summer guide at the

University of Uppsala Botanical Garden The University of Uppsala Botanical Garden (in Swedish ''Botaniska trädgården''), near Uppsala Castle, is the principal botanical garden belonging to Uppsala University. It was created on land donated to the university in 1787 by Sweden's King G ...

from 2000 to 2012. She was a member of the municipal council in Uppsala Municipality between 2006 and 2010. In February 2018, it was revealed that Left Party MP

Jens Holm Jens Holm (born 18 April 1971) is a Swedish politician. 2006-2009 he served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Left Party sitting with the EUL/NGL group. On 27 September 2006 he took up the seat vacated by Jonas Sjöstedt. He w ...

had reported Wallrup to the police for harassing him since 2012. Prosecutors however declined to investigate Holm's complaint as the evidence from the statute of limitations period - the previous two years - did not indicate any criminal offence had taken place. The Left Party leadership nevertheless excluded Wallrup from the party group in the Riksdag and forbade her from entering the party's offices in the Riksdag. Wallrup resigned from the Riksdag and the Left Party in June 2018 after party's Uppsala County branch voted to remove her from the top position on the party's list for the

2018 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden on 9 September 2018 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag. Regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The incumbent minority government, consisting of the Social Democrats and the Gre ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallrup, Emma 1971 births 21st-century Swedish women politicians Living people Members of the Riksdag 2010–2014 Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag from the Left Party (Sweden) People from Uppsala Municipality Women members of the Riksdag