Nalin Pekgul

Nalin Pekgul (née Baksi, born 30 April 1967) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician, nurse and former parliamentarian.

[1] In 1982, Pekgul joined the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League in Tensta, a suburb of Stockholm.

She was chairwoman of Social Democratic Women in Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges socialdemokratiska kvinnoförbund) 2003–2011.

[2] She supports the Swedish monarchy and has argued that the Social Democrats should remove calls for a republic from their party programme.

[3] The Social Democrats have been criticised for not raising issues of honour violence for fear of losing votes.