Hanna Carolina Westerén (born 23 September 1981) is a Swedish politician and member of the

Riksdag The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ...

for the

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. She is currently taking up seat number 13 in the Riksdag for the constituency of

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. Since 2018 she has been a member of the Committee on Environment and Agriculture. Westerén lives in Länna, in

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and she has been politically engaged since the early 2000s. She had previously worked for the

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but has been a full-time politician since 2010. She has had a seat at

Gotland Gotland (, ; ''Gutland'' in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the ...

's Regional Council, and since 1 February 2015 she took over the work from Christer Engelhardt as a member of parliament. Since 2018 she is the group leader for the Social Democrats in the Committee on Environment and Agriculture. During April 2018 until September 2018 she was a member of the

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. She joined the

War Delegation The War Delegation ( sv, krigsdelegationen, or ''KD'') is a standing committee of the Riksdag, with its functions enumerated in the Instrument of Government and the Riksdag Act, with the purpose of replacing the Riksdag as a whole whenever Sweden i ...

in October 2018. Between October 2019 and July 2018 she was on parental leave and her replacement, David Lindvall, took over during that time.

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