Constituency Skane County west Role Politician Occupation writer, journalist Residence Helsingborg, Sweden | Website Kent Harstedt Children Joel Harstedt Name Kent Harstedt | |
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Political party Swedish Social Democratic Party Party Swedish Social Democratic Party | ||
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Kent Härstedt (born 29 January 1965 in Helsingborg) is a Swedish social democratic politician, member of the Riksdag since the Swedish general election, 1998.
Actively interested in politics since the age of 16, he was elected to the municipal council of Helsingborg, where he remained for six years. He worked as political adviser to vice foreign minister Pierre Schori between 1994 and 1996, and as a freelance writer for amongst others Svenska Dagbladet, Helsingborgs Dagblad and Arbetarebladet. In 1998 he was elected to the Riksdag and still remains there. In 2004 and 2005, he was also alcohol commissioner for the Swedish government. Härstedt is the elected vice President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly 2014–2017. At the election to Ukraine's parliament on October 26, 2014, Härstedt was the special coordinator for the OSCE observer mission. Hästedt was the OSCE special coordinator in the presidential elections in Belarus 2015 and in the parliamentary elections on the 26th October 2016. He is since 2015 the chaIr of the OSCE PAs ad hoc working group on Belarus.
Between 1999 and 2005, he was the chairman of the Swedish branch of UNICEF.
Härstedt is a survivor of the MS Estonia disaster in 1994.
