Kent Alexander Ekeroth is a Swedish

Sweden

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 politician

Politician

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 of the nationalist Sweden Democrats

Sweden Democrats

The Sweden Democrats is a political party in Sweden, founded in 1988. SD describes itself as a nationalist movement although others use the term far-right. Since 2005, its party chairman is Jimmie Åkesson, while Björn Söder is the party secretary and parliamentary group leader. An Anemone...

 party. He is member

Member of Parliament

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 of the Swedish parliament

Parliament of Sweden

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 since 4 October 2010 (elected in the 2010 general election

Swedish general election, 2010

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), representing the Stockholm County

Stockholm County

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 constituency. In the parliament he is a member of Committee on Justice

Committee on Justice (Parliament of Sweden)

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 and a deputy member of Committee on European Union Affairs.

Ekeroth has worked as an economist

Economist

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. He joined the Sweden Democrats in 2006. Since 2007 he is the party's secretary for international affairs.

In October 2006 Ekeroth was fired from his practical vocational training place at the Swedish embassy in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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, Israel

Israel

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, after the embassy had found out about his involvement with the Sweden Democrats. The embassy's actions were later criticised by the Swedish Chancellor of Justice

Chancellor of Justice

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, Göran Lambertz

Göran Lambertz

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, who ruled that the firing was illegal and a breach of Swedish constitutional laws

Constitution of Sweden

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. The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden)

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, who are responsible for all Swedish embassies abroad, also had to pay damages to Ekeroth.

Since late 2010, Ekeroth has been a board member of the pan-European

European political party

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 eurosceptic

Euroscepticism

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 European Alliance for Freedom

European Alliance for Freedom

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Kent Ekeroth's twin brother, Ted Ekeroth, also works for the Sweden Democrats. Their mother is a Polish Jew, while their father is a Swede.

External links

• Kent Ekeroth, official website and blog
• Kent Ekeroth at the Swedish parliament
  Parliament of Sweden
  The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...