Jonas Millard (born September, 1981) is a Swedish former politician and MP in 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 ...

who represented the

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party. Millard was born in Värmland, but raised in

Örebro Örebro ( , ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, sixth-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of the Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers in ...

. He studied

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and worked in IT security. He joined the Sweden Democrats late in the 1990s and in 2011 was elected as a municipal councilor in Örebro Municipality. He was elected to the Riksdag in 2014. In December 2018, '' Dagens Nyheter'' reported that Millard had made a number of misogynistic posts on the website ''Flasback'' in which he joked about rape, appeared to encourage violence against women and advised from personal experience on vacations to Bangkok on how to buy prostitutes in Thailand. It was also found that Millard had used the same computer servers and password from his job at Örebro Municipality council when making the posts. Millard denied some of the accusations and claimed that other people had made some of the posts, but admitted to using prostitutes abroad. In response, the Sweden Democrats announced an investigation into the incident and that Millard would leave the Riksdag following the controversy. He was subsequently removed from the party in 2019. Per Söderlund replaced him in the Riksdag.

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Living people Political scandals in Sweden Political sex scandals in Sweden 1981 births Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag from the Sweden Democrats 21st-century Swedish politicians {{Sweden-politician-stub