Yasmine Eriksson

Yasmine Eriksson (born 1989) is a Swedish politician and a member of the Sweden Democrats party who has been an MP in the Riksdag since 2018.

[2] She has summed up her early life as being a "working class kid with a single mother and younger siblings" and of a foreign background.

She has claimed that concerns over violent crime in her local area and integration for immigrants were what motivated her to take an interest in politics and join the Sweden Democrats.

[5] She also worked as SD leader Jimmie Akesson's press secretary.

[6] In 2020, she supported a motion calling for stricter penalties against animal cruelty.