Annika Lillemets

Annika Lillemets (born 1962) is a Swedish politician and former parliamentarian who was a member of the Riksdag representing the Green Party from 2010 to 2018.

After Carl Schlyter, also well known for his critique of several government decisions, was forced away from his post as the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on European Union Affairs, and Valter Mutt was forced away from the position as a Foreign policy spokesperson, Annika Lillemets voluntarily left her alternate positions in the Swedish Parliament in mid 2016, as a sign of support for the two.

[2] Thereafter these four MPs stopped attending the Green Party's own working meetings in the Parliament for several months.

Issues where this group voted against the government's policies included the Host Nation Support with NATO, the temporary tightening of the immigration policy following the 2015 migrant crisis, and Vattenfall’s sale of coal mines.

[3] However, in December 2016 the group returned to attend the Green Party's working meetings in the Parliament.