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  1. She represented the Left Party until she left it in 2004; she then sat until 2006 as an independent politician.

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Gudrun Schyman
Gudrun Schyman pressbild.tiff
Gudrun Schyman in August 2014
Leader of Feminist Initiative
In office
6 March 2013 28 october 2018
Servingwith Sissela Nordling Blanco (since 2011)
Preceded by Leader of the Swedish Left Party
1993–2003
Succeeded by