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Nasima Razmyar (born 13 September 1984 in
Nasima Razmyar (born 13 September 1984 in Kabul
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, Afghanistan
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) is an Afghan
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-born Finnish
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politician, representing the Social Democratic Party
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. Razmyar was elected to the Finnish Parliament
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in 2015, gaining 5,156 votes in the elections
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. She served in the Parliament until June 2017, when she was chosen as the Deputy Mayor for culture and leisure in Helsinki. She has also been a member of the City Council of Helsinki
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since 2012.
Razmyar's family came to Finland from Moscow where her father Mohammad Daoud Razmyar served as the Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan to the Soviet Union
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. The family moved to Finland in 1993, after then Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah
Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (Pashto/ prs, محمد نجیبالله احمدزی, ; 6 August 1947 – 27 September 1996), commonly known as Dr. Najib, was an Afghan politician who served as the General Secretary of the People's Democratic Par ...
was ousted from power. In 2010 Razmyar was named the Finnish Refugee Woman of the Year.
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