Julia Maria Kronlid (born 16 July 1980) is a

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politician for the

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and a member of the

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since the 2010 general election. She represents the

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electorate.

Career

She worked as a volunteer nurse for the Pingstmission - a

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development work at a hospital clinic in

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Political career

Kronlid joined the Sweden Democrats in 2006. In the

2010 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 2010 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag. The main contenders of the election were the governing centre-right coalition the Alliance, consisting of the Moderate Party, the Centre Party, t ...

, she was elected to the Riksdag as a member of the party. From 12 October 2010, Kronlid took maternity leave and was replaced temporarily by

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. She returned to the Riksdagen on 18 April 2011. Since 2013, she has been a chairman of the Sweden Democrats party board. Kronlid currently sits on the Riksdagens Committee on Foreign Affairs specializing in foreign politics and humanitarian assistance politics for other countries. She said during the Sweden Democrats annual party congress in 2009 that she thought her party should help refugees in the area of the crisis. In 2015, she proposed a motion in the Riksdag to lower the abortion limit in Sweden from 18 weeks to 12 weeks. After the

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, she was named

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Views

In an article in ''

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'' in December 2015, Kronlid criticized that 30% of Swedish foreign aid was used to finance immigration into Sweden. She stated that after she had been visiting refugee camps in both Jordan and Lebanon, she thought it was obvious that more aid was needed to the immediate area of the crisis and not for immigration costs for Sweden. Kronlid believes that

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should not be the only theory taught to children in schools. She has further stated that she rejects the scientific consensus that that humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor.

Personal life

She resides in

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and is married to local politician David Kronlid; the couple has two children together: a daughter and a son.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kronlid, Julia 1980 births Living people Members of the Riksdag from the Sweden Democrats People from Örebro Municipality Place of birth missing (living people) Women members of the Riksdag 21st-century Swedish women politicians Members of the Riksdag 2010–2014 Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag 2022–2026 21st-century Swedish politicians