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

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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

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. 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

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'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

. During April 2018 until September 2018 she was a member of the Committee on Industry and Trade. She joined the

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

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