{{Short description|Swedish politician (born 1980)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Julia Kronlid | image = Julia Kronlid (cropped).png | caption = Julia Kronlid in 2022 | office = Second Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag | 1blankname = Speaker | 1namedata = Andreas Norlén | term_start = 26 September 2022 | term_end = | predecessor = Lotta Johnsson Fornarve | successor = | office2 = Member of the Riksdag | term_start2 = 19 October 2010 | term_end2 = |constituency2 = Stockholm County (2014– )<br />Skåne County (2010–2014) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|07|16|df=yes}} | party = Sweden Democrats }}
'''Julia Maria Kronlid''' (born 16 July 1980) is a Swedish politician and the second deputy of the Sweden Democrats. A member of the Riksdagen since the 2010 general election, she represents the Stockholm County electorate.
==Biography==
=== Early life and career === Kronlid is the daughter of toolmaker and seamstress. She grew up in Myresjö where her family were free church members.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/vem-ar-julia-kronlid |title=Vem är: Julia Kronlid – från kyrkopolitiker till talman |access-date=10 February 2025 |archive-date=27 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927151653/https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/vem-ar-julia-kronlid |url-status=live }}</ref>
She completed a degree in nursing followed by a degree in social care and pedagogical treatment at Örebro University. After graduating she worked for the general psychiatry department at Örebro County Council and as a volunteer nurse for the Pingstmission – a Pentecostal Evangelical development work at a hospital clinic in Papua New Guinea.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.svt.se/nyheter/val2014/guide/kandidat/17382-julia_kronlid |title=Kandidat – Julia Kronlid |publisher=SVT|language=Swedish|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924124212/http://www.svt.se/nyheter/val2014/guide/kandidat/17382-julia_kronlid|archivedate=24 September 2014}}</ref><ref name="expressen.se">{{cite web|url=http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/dokument/sd---fran-skinnvast-till-kostym/|title=SD – från skinnväst till kostym|language=Swedish|work=Expressen|date=19 October 2009|accessdate=4 January 2016|archive-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203041009/http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/dokument/sd---fran-skinnvast-till-kostym/|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== Political career === Kronlid joined the Sweden Democrats in 2006 after previously supporting the Christian Democrats.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/vem-ar-julia-kronlid | title=Vem är: Julia Kronlid – från kyrkopolitiker till talman | newspaper=SVT Nyheter | date=26 September 2022 | last1=Gyllander | first1=Oscar | archive-date=27 September 2022 | access-date=27 September 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927151653/https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/vem-ar-julia-kronlid | url-status=live }}</ref> In the 2010 Swedish general election, she was elected to the Riksdag as a member of the party.
From 12 October 2010, Kronlid took maternity leave and was replaced temporarily by Stellan Bojerud.<ref name="riksdagsförvaltningen">{{cite web|language=Swedish|url=http://www.riksdagen.se/webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1111&iid=0575313291605|title=Stellan Bojerud (SD)|publisher=Sveriges Riksdag|accessdate=4 January 2016|archive-date=11 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711203208/http://www.riksdagen.se/webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1111&iid=0575313291605|url-status=live}}</ref> She returned to the Riksdagen on 18 April 2011.<ref>{{cite web|language=Swedish|url=http://riksdagen.se/webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1111&iid=0638497389621|title=Julia Kronlid (SD)|publisher=Sveriges Riksdag|accessdate=4 January 2016|archive-date=10 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010232253/http://riksdagen.se/webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1111&iid=0638497389621|url-status=dead}}</ref> Since 2013, she has been a chairman of the Sweden Democrats party board.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sd.se/vart-parti/partistyrelse/|title=Partistyrelse|language=Swedish|publisher=Sverigedemokraternas partistyrelse|accessdate=4 January 2016|archive-date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208142843/https://sd.se/vart-parti/partistyrelse/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Kronlid currently sits on the Riksdagen Committee on Foreign Affairs specializing in foreign politics and humanitarian assistance politics for other countries. She said during the Sweden Democrats annual party congress in 2009 that she thought her party should help refugees in the area of the crisis.<ref name="riksdagsförvaltningen"/>
In 2015, she proposed a motion in the Riksdag to lower the abortion limit in Sweden from 18 weeks to 12 weeks.<ref>{{cite web|date=26 September 2022|title=Kronlid vägrar gå med på att hon är släkt med apor|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/KnpVPe/var-andre-vice-talman-julia-kronlid-sd-ar-kritisk-till-bade-abort-och-evolutionsteorin|author-last=Kierkegaard|author-first=Susanna|access-date=27 September 2022|work=Aftonbladet}}</ref>
After the 2022 Swedish general election, she was named Second Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag.<ref>{{cite web|date=25 September 2022|title=Nomineringen av Kronlid (SD) kritiseras – pekas ut som abortkritiker|url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/nomineringen-av-kronlid-sd-som-andre-vice-talman-kritiseras|author-last=Brusman|author-first=Filip|access-date=27 September 2022|work=SVT Nyheter|archive-date=27 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927005137/https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/nomineringen-av-kronlid-sd-som-andre-vice-talman-kritiseras|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Views == In an article in ''Svenska Dagbladet'' in December 2015, Kronlid criticized that 30% of Swedish foreign aid was used to finance immigration into Sweden.<ref name="svd.se">{{cite web|url=http://www.svd.se/fel-att-ta-30-procent-av-bistandet|title=Fel att ta 30 procent av biståndet|date=16 December 2015|work=Svenska Dagbladet|accessdate=5 January 2016|language=Swedish|archive-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203181048/http://www.svd.se/fel-att-ta-30-procent-av-bistandet|url-status=live}}</ref> She stated that after she had been visiting refugee camps in both Jordan and Lebanon, she thought it was obvious that more aid was needed to the immediate area of the crisis and not for immigration costs for Sweden.<ref name="svd.se"/>
Kronlid believes that human evolution should not be the only theory taught to children in schools.<ref name="nyheter24.se">{{cite web|url=http://nyheter24.se/maktkamp24/772424-sd-topp-man-maste-fa-ifragasatta-evolutionen|title=SD-topp: 'Man måste få ifrågasätta evolutionen'|publisher=Nyheter24|accessdate=5 January 2016|language=Swedish}}</ref> She has further stated that she rejects the scientific consensus that humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor.<ref name="nyheter24.se"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://kit.se/2015/11/30/24628/sd-toppen-vs-vetenskapen-en-match-i-3-ronder/|title=SD-toppen vs vetenskapen – en match i tre ronder|publisher=KIT|accessdate=16 January 2016|language=Swedish|archive-date=1 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201183533/https://kit.se/2015/11/30/24628/sd-toppen-vs-vetenskapen-en-match-i-3-ronder/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dagen.se/sturmark-uppm%C3%A4rksammar-kristen-sd-profil-1.94079|title=Sturmark uppmärksammar kristen SD-profil|author=Anna Bieniaszewski Sandberg|work=Dagen|accessdate=16 January 2016|language=Swedish|archive-date=5 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205014708/http://www.dagen.se/sturmark-uppm%C3%A4rksammar-kristen-sd-profil-1.94079|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Personal life == She resides in Glanshammar and is married to local politician David Kronlid; the couple has two children together: a daughter and a son.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.svt.se/nyheter/val2014/guide/riksdag/17382-julia_kronlid.html |title=Politikerna i riksdagen: Julia Kronlid, Sverigedemokraterna |publisher=SVT |language=Swedish |accessdate=5 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203011608/http://www.svt.se/nyheter/val2014/guide/riksdag/17382-julia_kronlid.html |archivedate=3 February 2016 }}</ref>
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== External links == *{{Commonscat-inline|Julia Kronlid}}
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