Veronika Honkasalo | |
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 Honkasalo in 2018 | |
| Member of the Finnish Parliament for Helsinki | |
| Assumed office 17 April 2019 | |
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| Born | 7 July 1975 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland |
| Political party | Left Alliance |
Veronika Honkasalo (born 7 July 1975 in Lappeenranta) is a Finnish politician currently serving in the Parliament of Finland for the Left Alliance at the Helsinki constituency. [1]
She earned a doctorate in social sciences in 2012 and was appointed an associate professor in 2018. [1] She is a researcher at the Youth Research Society [2] and has published several papers on youth related research. [2] [3]
She entered the city council of Helsinki in 2012 and was elected to the Finnish parliament in 2019. [4]
She is opposed to Palestinians being forcibly expelled from their land to make way for Israeli settlements and introduced a motion proposing an import ban on products produced by the inhabitants of such settlements [5] in accordance with Article 49 of the Geneva Convention. [6]
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