Kristina Eva Martina Winberg (born 27 May 1965) is a Swedish former

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who was a

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(MEP) representing the Sweden Democrats, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists. She was elected to the European Parliament in the

2014 European Parliament election in Sweden European Parliament elections in Sweden took place on 25 May 2014. At the election, twenty Members of the European Parliament ( MEPs) were from the Swedish constituency. In the election, voters choose members of registered Swedish parties whose ...

. In 2019, she was excluded from the Sweden Democrats.

Career

Winberg sold advertising for the ''Jönköpings-Posten'' newspaper for 8 years, was a

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for 15 years, and then became a

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caring for people with

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. In 2010 she was a candidate for the Riksdag; she has been a member of the

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Jönköping Municipality Jönköping Municipality ( sv, Jönköpings kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden. The city of Jönköping is the municipal seat. The municipality is situated by the southern end of lake Vättern. Historical backgroun ...

since 2010. Winberg was launched as her party's top candidate to the European Parliament on 27 January 2014. On 25 May 2014, Winberg and

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became the first representatives of the party to be elected

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. In December 2016, she was barred from attending a meeting with the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister,

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, because the state of Israel considers the Sweden Democrats to have "sometimes neo-Nazi views", according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. In protest, Becky Norton Dunlop, the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow at

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, who served on the transition team of president-elect

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, canceled the meeting. A few days before the 2019 elections to the European Parliament, Winberg was excluded from the party ballot of the Sweden Democrats, and soon after that she was forced to leave the party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Winberg, Kristina 1965 births Living people 21st-century Swedish women politicians MEPs for Sweden 2014–2019 People from Karlshamn Municipality Sweden Democrats MEPs