Meet the EU Parliament’s (Likely) First-Elected Feminist Party Member
Europe’s parliamentary elections are expected to end this weekend with a
surprising first: The first-ever member elected from a feminist party to the
European Parliament. Less surprising is the likely MEP’s country of origin,
Sweden. The bastion of gender equality has a nine-year-old feminist
political party, the Feminist Initiative (which also has outposts in Germany
and France), and it is on track to secure the 4 percent of the country’s
vote necessary to send a representative to the EU’s legislative body. At the
top of the party’s batting order is Soraya Post, 57, a longtime human rights
activist who spoke to the Cut from Stockholm, where she’s wrapping up her
campaign.