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Yasmine Posio

Swedish politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ50353141 ↗
Source-derived summary

Linda Yasmine Posio (born 1974) is a Swedish politician and former member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Left Party, she represented Gothenburg Municipality between June 2017 and September 2022.

Posio is the daughter of carpenter Esa Mertala and administrator Marja-Leena Posio. She trained to be a teacher. She has held numerous jobs including caretaker, kitchen assistant, au-pair, warehouse worker, truck driver and teacher. She was a member of the municipal council in Gothenburg Municipality from 2014 to 2017.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Yasmine Posio” as swedish politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 2017, 2022, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-08-02. The account is most persuasive where Yasmine, Posio and Swedish can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as swedish politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q50353141. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 2017, 2022 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yasmine Posio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.