Eva Biaudet
Eva Rita Katarina Biaudet is a Finnish politician and Member of Parliament of Finland in the parliamentary group of the Swedish [People's Party of Finland|Swedish People's Party]. She returned to the Finnish Parliament in the parliamentary election of April 2015. Eva Biaudet was Member of Parliament of Finland and is a former Minister of Social Services. After the election of 2003 Biaudet did not want to continue as a cabinet minister.
Biaudet was appointed as the Ombudsman for Minorities for a term of five years starting in 2010. A complaint was made concerning her nomination because she was formally unqualified for the office, as she lacked a university degree. Biaudet had studied law, but never graduated. The complaint did not succeed, as Biaudet was granted a special permission. Her lack of a university degree caused a lot of debate and brought accusations of politics in her appointment.
2012 Eva Biaudet was the Swedish People's Party candidate in the 2012 Finnish [presidential election|Finnish presidential election], finishing 7th with 2.7% of votes in the first round of voting. In June 2011 the U.S. credited Biaudet for her continued work against human trafficking.
In 2015, Biaudet could not seek a continuation for her five-year term as the Ombudsman for Minorities due to her lack of a university degree, because the formal qualifications of the office had been defined by law after 2010. She was elected to the Parliament of Finland in 2015 and re-elected in 2019.
Biaudet went to the Swedish co-educational school Nya svenska samskolan.