Karla López

Karla López (born January 28, 1977, in San Salvador, El Salvador), is a Swedish former MP for the Green Party from Gothenburg. She is the first Central American descendant to occupy a position in the Swedish Parliament.

Lopez migrated to Sweden with her parents in 1987 at the age of 10 as a political refugee during the Salvadoran Civil War and grew up in Uddevalla. She sat in parliament for the Green Party 2006–2007, where she was an alternate member of the Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee, and member of the Composite Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee from 18 October 2007.

Lopez resigned from her parliamentary seat and left the party November 13, 2007, in protest against the party's decision to agree that Sweden should send combat troops to international missions, despite it being contrary to a decision made at the party congress.[1] At that time, Swedish combat troops were deployed in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led ISAF (International Security Assistance Force).[2]

In 2010, López started a company called Karlimar that sells organic clothing.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ svt.se "Mp-ledamot lämnar riksdagen i protest", publicerad 13 november 2007 (hämtad 19 maj 2025)
  2. ^ fn.se Allt färre svenska soldater i tjänst under FN-flagg publicerad augusti 2016 (hämtad 19 maj 2025)
  3. ^ Om Karlimar Archived 2014-05-23 at the Wayback Machine, företag som säljer ekologiska kläder.
  4. ^ Karla säljer ekologiska kläder via internet Archived 2014-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, publicerad 9 oktober 2012


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