Background
Post"s father was a German-born Jew, and her mother was a Romani (Norwegian and Swedish Travellers).
Member of the European Parliament politician
Post"s father was a German-born Jew, and her mother was a Romani (Norwegian and Swedish Travellers).
Post has worked with questions about national minorities at Västra Götaland County justice and equality committee, and has also worked with question surrounding the Romani people and she also helped starting Agnesbergs folkhögskola in Gothenburg in 2007. She has been a commissioner at Sveriges Television. In February 2014, Post was chosen as the party"s top candidate for the 2014 European Parliament election in Sweden.
On 7 June 2014, Post joined the South&Doctorate group in the European Parliament.
While Post"s election has been widely seen as the party"s first European representation, former Liberal People"s Party Member of the European Parliament Maria Robsahm had in 2006 defected to the Feminist Initiative, representing the party in the European Parliament until 2009. Also, Post and Damian Drăghici from Romania are the only MEPs with Romani background.
Post"s eldest daughter entered into an unofficial marriage / Romani engagement at sixteen years of age which was approved by the Romani community. In 2014, the relationship led to public debate in Sweden where critics accused Post for holding a cultural relativistic position and not opposing child marriages.
Post responded by referring to the relationship as an engagement, wrote that the engagement had happened 20 years ago and her position on the issue had evolved and that she clearly was against child marriages.
Post however became the party"s first elected Member of the European Parliament and the first Romani in Swedish history to be chosen as a candidate for a political party.