Party: | Left Alliance |
Constituency Mp: | Helsinki |
Term Start: | 17 April 2019 |
Parliament: | Finnish |
Birth Date: | 7 July 1975 |
Birth Place: | Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland |
Veronika Honkasalo (born 7 July 1975 in Lappeenranta) is a Finnish politician currently serving in the Parliament of Finland for the Left Alliance at the Helsinki constituency.[1]
She earned a doctorate in social sciences in 2012 and was appointed an associate professor in 2018. She is a researcher at the Youth Research Society[2] and has published several papers on youth related research.[3]
She entered the city council of Helsinki in 2012 and was elected to the Finnish parliament in 2019.[4]
She is opposed to Palestinians being forcibly expelled from their land to make way for Israeli settlements and introduced a motion proposing an import ban on products produced by the inhabitants of such settlements[5] in accordance with Article 49 of the Geneva Convention.[6]