Elsa Widding comes from Gothenburg but has lived in Stockholm for several years. In the autumn of 2022, Elsa stood in the parliamentary elections for the Sweden Democrats but for various reasons she chose to leave the party in May 2023. Since then, she has been an active member of parliament as a non-party member and in May 2025 she founded the Ambition Sverige party. Elsa is an energy expert with several senior positions in large energy companies behind her. Among other things, she worked as an expert in the Government Offices with responsibility for Vattenfall under the previous centre-right government. Widding made herself known to the public by pointing out Vattenfall's extremely costly purchase of the Dutch energy company Nuon as a major loss for the Swedish state. Today, Elsa Widding is seriously concerned about how climate research is being distorted even before it reaches the UN climate panel IPCC.
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