Joakim Reinhold Sandell (born 1975) is a

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politician, journalist and member of the

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, the national

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. A member of the

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, he has represented

Malmö Municipality Malmö Municipality ( sv, Malmö kommun), or City of Malmö (''Malmö stad''), is a Swedish municipality in Skåne County, the southernmost of the counties of Sweden (and conterminous with the historical province (''landskap'') of Scania). Whe ...

since September 2018. Sandell is the son of

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Bengt-Göran Sandell and crown inspector Ingerd Sandell (née Eklundh). He was educated in

Växjö Växjö ( ) is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden. It had 70,489 inhabitants (2019) out of a municipal population of 95,995 (2021). It is the administrative, cultural, and industrial centre of Kronoberg County ...

. He studied at

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. He was a teacher in

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. He was a member of the regional council in

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from 2014 to 2018.

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1975 births Living people Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag 2022–2026 Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats Swedish schoolteachers {{Sweden-SocialDemocratic-politician-stub