Amelia Andersdotter
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| Member of the European Parliament for Sweden |
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In office 1 December 2011 – 25 May 2014 |
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30 August 1987 Enköping, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Political party | Pirate Party (Greens–EFA) |
| Website | Official webpage |
Amelia Andersdotter (born 30 August 1987, Enköping) is a Swedish politician and former Member of the European Parliament (2011–2014), elected on the Piratpartiet list in the 2009 election.
Amelia Andersdotter was born on 30 August 1987 at Akademiska sjukhuset in Uppsala, Sweden, the first of three children. Her mother, Lotta Lille, is a journalist, and her father, Anders Lundquist, is a teacher and chess tutor. Her sisters are Ulrika and Karolina. She also has a half-brother on her father's side, Eirik Lundquist. After graduating at Rosendalsgymnasiet in Uppsala, she attended university in Lund, where she studied mathematics, physics, Spanish and business law. However, Andersdotter was elected before completing her studies.
She has lived in many parts of Europe, including Lund, Uppsala, Bucharest, Ghent and Brussels.
Andersdotter joined the Piratpartiet shortly after its formation in 2006. From June 2007 to March 2010 she was the international coordinator of Ung Pirat, the party's youth wing. In this capacity she coordinated contacts with other groups in Sweden, other pirate political movements around the world, and the organization's international policy viewpoints.
In 2009, she was named the second candidate on Piratpartiet's list for the European Parliament elections in June of that year. While Piratpartiet did not gain enough votes for a second MEP under the treaty of Nice, they did get enough votes to award her a seat under the terms of the new treaty of Lisbon that was to come into effect December that year. Difficulties with the ratification process of the treaty of Lisbon meant that the seat would not be granted until December 2011. From 2011 to 2014, she was the youngest member of the European Parliament.
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