Soraya Post

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Soraya Post
MEP
File:Soraya Post.jpg
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
1 July 2014
Personal details
Born Soraya Viola Heléna Post
(1956-10-15) 15 October 1956 (age 67)
Gothenburg, Sweden
Political party Feminist Initiative

Soraya Viola Heléna Post (born 15 October 1956) is a Swedish politician for the Feminist Initiative party.[1] Post's father was a German-born Jew, and her mother was a Romani (Norwegian and Swedish Travellers).[2][3]

Career

Post has worked with questions about national minorities at Västra Götaland County justice and equality committee, and has also worked with question surrounding the Romani people and she also helped starting Agnesbergs folkhögskola in Gothenburg in 2007.[4] She has been a commissioner at Sveriges Television.[5]

In February 2014, Post was chosen as the party's top candidate for the 2014 European Parliament election in Sweden.[6][7] In the election on 25 May 2014, the Feminist Initiative won one seat in the European Parliament with Post taking the party seat.[8] On 7 June 2014, Post joined the S&D group in the European Parliament.[9]

While Post's election has been widely seen as the party's first European representation,[10] former Liberal People's Party MEP Maria Robsahm had in 2006 defected to the Feminist Initiative, representing the party in the European Parliament until 2009. Post however became the party's first elected MEP[11] and the first Romani in Swedish history to be chosen as a candidate for a political party.[12][13] Also, Post and Damian Drăghici from Romania are the only MEPs with Romani background.[14]

Debate over child marriages

Post's eldest daughter entered into an unofficial marriage / Romani engagement at sixteen years of age which was approved by the Romani community.[15] In 2014, the relationship led to public debate in Sweden where critics accused Post for holding a cultural relativistic position and not opposing child marriages. Post responded by referring to the relationship as an engagement, wrote that the engagement had happened 20 years ago and her position on the issue had evolved and that she clearly was against child marriages.[16][17]

See also

References

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  16. ↑ Soroya Post (5 June 2014) Det räcker inte att fördöma barngifte (Swedish) Aftonbladet
  17. ↑ Maria Hagberg (9 June 2014) ”Det privata är politiskt” SVT
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