Carl Per Gunnar Gahrton was a Swedish politician.
14 Facts About Per Gahrton
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Per Gahrton was a member of Parliament, holding a seat for the Liberal Party from 1976 to 1979, and for the Green Party from 1988 to 1991, and again in 1994 to 1995.
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Early in his career, Gahrton was elected chairman of the youth and student wing of the Swedish Liberal Party, in 1969.
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Per Gahrton became a member of Parliament for the Liberal Party in 1976.
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Per Gahrton was re-elected in 1979 but left the parliament and the party the same year, expressing disenchantment with the parliament bureaucracy.
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Per Gahrton served as one of two spokespersons for the party from 1984 to 1985.
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Per Gahrton served as a member of Parliament for the Green Party from 1988 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1995.
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Per Gahrton was an outspoken eurosceptic and was one of the leading proponents of the "no" side in the 1994 Swedish European Union membership referendum.
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In March 2009, Per Gahrton participated in a large protest against the Davis Cup match between Sweden and Israel in Malmo.
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Per Gahrton was the author of Life and Death in the European Parliament, part political thriller, part tell-all memoir.
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The book was criticized by fellow parliament members as being a thinly disguised rip-off of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, which dominated Sweden's bestseller lists at the time, and Per Gahrton was accused of wanting to cash in on Brown's success.
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Consequently, Per Gahrton was forced to distribute the book free of charge.
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Per Gahrton described himself as Jewish according to the traditional Jewish definition, as his matrilineal family via his maternal grandmother's mother was Jewish.
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Per Gahrton Garhton died on 19 September 2023, at the age of 80.