Lars Adaktusson
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Lars Adaktusson MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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| Constituency | Sweden |
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Lars Göran Peter Adaktusson 6 August 1955 Jönköping, Sweden |
| Political party |
 SwedishChristian Democrats  EUEuropean People's Party |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Adaktusson |
| Children | 2 |
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| Religion | Church of Sweden |
| Website | www |
Lars Göran Peter Adaktusson (born 6 August 1955) is an Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden. He is a member of the Christian Democrats, part of the European People's Party.
An employee of public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) for many years, Adaktusson has worked both as a reporter and a news anchor for the nightly news show Aktuellt, and has in addition also been stationed as a foreign correspondent in Vienna, Washington DC, and in Amman.
Adaktusson was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2014 European Parliament elections in Sweden. He has since been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI). In addition to his committee assignments, he serves as vice-chairman of the parliament’s delegation for relations with Afghanistan.
In February 2016, Adaktusson tabled a resolution recognizing the Islamic State militant group’s (ISIS) systematic killing and persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East as a genocide, which the European Parliament unanimously passed.
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