Abir Al-Sahlani is considered one of the most attractive Swedish politicians. (click here)
Abir Al-Sahlani (born 18 May 1976 in Iraq) is a Swedish politician and a past member of the Parliament of Sweden, representing the Centre Party. She lives in Hägersten, Stockholm.
Al-Sahlani studied at the Mid Sweden University (Mittuniversitetet) in Sundsvall. She holds a Master's degree from Stockholm University.
In 2002-2003 she has been a volunteer with Nacka School (Internationella Engelska Skolan) in Stockholm.
In 2004 Al-Sahlani was appointed to the Secretary General of the Iraqi National Democratic Alliance (DNA) position.
In February 2007, she became a member of Sweden's Center Party. Abir Al-Sahlani was on the board of the Center Party's municipal council in Härnösand as the youngest member. At the same time, she worked with homework help for immigrant children with her own funds. Last year at high school, she devoted a lot of time to the work on 5 in the 12th movement in Härnösand, which worked with discrimination issues in connection with Everyone against the Racism campaign. For three years, Abir Al-Sahlani has been working in Iraq with the building of a democratic center, women's seminars, the building of a secular party, the National Democratic Alliance and a youth parliament. In February 2007, Abir Al-Sahlani was hired by the Center Party as a political expert in the Riksdag with responsibility for the Foreign Affairs Committee's committee work.
Al-Sahlani was nominated in the European Parliament elections 2009 as number three on the Center Party's candidate list. In the 2010 parliamentary election, she was in position four on the Center Party's list for the Stockholm municipal constituency, which is why she became a replacement in the Riksdag for the Government Minister Andreas Carlgren. After Carlgren resigned from the government and the Riksdag in September 2011, Al-Sahlani became an ordinary member.
In November 2013, Al-Sahlani was suspected of fraud for several million Swedish krona., but was later acquitted.
12 November 2013
Swedish Centre Party politician Abir Al-Sahlani (click here) has been forced to take a break from parliament after being accused of fraud relating to an Iraqi aid project.
Al-Sahlani, 37, is suspected of fraud in relation to two democracy projects in Iraq run by the Centre Party. The projects, which took place in 2009 and 2010, were funded by state money from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). An estimated 3.2 million kronor ($480,000) of aid money is unaccounted for according to Swedish Radio's Ekot programme.
A statement posted on the Centre Party's website said that Al-Sahlani was taking a "time-out" and added that it was because of "deficiencies in the financial records concerning an aid project in Iraq."
Both Al-Sahlani and her father Abid (click here) handled the aid project in Iraq where they were both born.
The police were notified last year by the Centre Party's international foundation after serious discrepancies were discovered in the projects' final accounts. State prosecutor Staffan Granefeldt at the Swedish Economic Crime Authority has conducted interviews with key people involved with the Iraqi aid effort....
