| Lars Adaktusson | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
| Office: | Member of the Riksdag |
| Term Start: | 24 September 2018 |
| Term End: | 26 September 2022 |
| Constituency: | Dalarna County |
| Office2: | Member of the European Parliament |
| Term Start2: | 1 July 2014 |
| Term End2: | 23 September 2018 |
| Constituency2: | Sweden |
| Birth Name: | Lars Göran Peter Adaktusson |
| Birth Date: | 6 August 1955 |
| Birth Place: | Jönköping, Sweden |
| Party: |  SwedenChristian Democrats European People's Party |
| Spouse: | Helen Adaktusson |
| Children: | 2 |
| Alma Mater: | Örebro University Göteborg University |
Lars Göran Peter Adaktusson (born 6 August 1955) is a Swedish politician for the Christian Democrats. He was Member of the Riksdag from the 2018 general election until 2022.[1] Prior to that, he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).[2]
An employee of public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) for many years, Adaktusson has worked both as a reporter and a news anchor for the nightly news show Aktuellt, and has also been stationed as a foreign correspondent in Vienna, Washington DC, and in Amman.[3]
Adaktusson was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2014 European Parliament elections in Sweden.[4] [5] He has since been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI). In addition to his committee assignments, he serves as vice-chairman of the parliament's delegation for relations with Afghanistan.
In February 2016, Adaktusson tabled a resolution recognizing the Islamic State militant group's (ISIS) systematic killing and persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East as a genocide, which the European Parliament unanimously passed.[6]