Markus Wiechel

Markus Wiechel (born 15 April 1988) is a Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) of Sweden following the resignation of Lars Isovaara on 29 November 2012.

Markus Wiechel
MP in the Swedish Parliament
Assumed office
03 December 2012 - Present
LeaderJimmie Åkesson
Preceded byLars Isovaara
ConstituencyVästra Götaland North
Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Assumed office
27 September 2016 - Present
Deputy of the Committee on the Labour Market
Assumed office
14 October 2014 - Present
Deputy of the Committee on Civil Affairs
Assumed office
14 October 2014 - Present
Deputy of the Committee on European Union Affairs
Assumed office
3 November 2015 - Present
Deputy of The Swedish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Assumed office
5 April 2016 - Present
Deputy of the Committee on Social Insurance
In office
11 October 2016 – 14 November 2017
Member of the Committee on Social Insurance
In office
07 October 2014 – 27 September 2016
Member of the Committee on Civil Affairs
In office
22 February 2013 – 29 September 2014
Deputy of the Committee on Justice
In office
22 February 2013 – 29 September 2014
Member of The Swedish Delegation to the Nordic Council
In office
17 September 2013 – 15 June 2014
Personal details
Born
Gustaf Markus Wiechel

(1988-04-15) 15 April 1988
Linköping, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Political partySweden Democrats
(2007–present)
Alma materLinköping University
ProfessionPolitician

He's currently serving as member for the Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as Deputy for the Committee on the Labour Market, the Committee on Civil Affairs, the Committee on European Union Affairs as well as The Swedish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

He's previously served as Member for the Committee on Social Insurance, the Committee on Justice as well as The Swedish Delegation to the Nordic Council

Early life

Markus Wiechel graduated from Hickman High School (Columbia, Missouri) in 2007[1] and moved to his native Sweden to study Social Services at the University of Linköping but later graduated in Political Science.

Political life

Wiechel joined the Sweden Democrats shortly after moving back to Sweden and became the chairman of the Sweden Democrats in the city of Norrköping in 2009. A few months later he became the chairman for the Sweden Democrats regional board in Östergötland.

In the elections of 2010 he became a Member of Norrköping City Council as well as a Deputy of Swedish Parliament (Riksdag). Between 2010 and 2013 he worked as a Political Secretary and City Council Group Leader for the local Parliamentary group.[2][3][4][5]

He left the local board in 2012 as well as the regional board in 2015 but has been a member of the national board of the Sweden Democrats since 2011.[6] As of September 2013, he is a columnist in the party newspaper SD-Kuriren. Following the resignation of Lars Isovaara on 29 November 2012, Wiechel assumed office as a regular member of parliament. Since he was a member of the committee on Civil Affairs, he became the spokesperson for housing policies, civil rights and consumer rights. Wiechel was also, between 2013-2014, a member of the Nordic Council.[7]

In the 2014 elections to the European Parliament he ran as the 8th candidate of the Sweden Democrats but the party received two out of 20 seats. Wiechel got once again elected as a member of Norrköping City Council as well as a member of the Swedish Parliament. As of the fall of 2014 he is a member of the committee on Social Insurance and the Sweden Democrats spokesperson for migration and citizenship. Wiechel is also a member of the Swedish delegation to the Council of Europe since 2016, where he is a member of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, and an alternate member of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons.[8]

References
  1. http://www.kewpie.net/Class07/2007Grats.html
  2. http://www.val.se/val/val2010/slutresultat/protokoll/protokoll_00R.pdf
  3. http://markuswiechel.wordpress.com/about/
  4. http://norrkoping.sverigedemokraterna.se/category/vara_foretradare/
  5. http://ostergotland.sverigedemokraterna.se/category/vara_foretradare/
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2012-09-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. http://www.riksdagen.se/en/Members-and-parties/Members/Ledamoter/Wiechel-Markus-0204240926023/?hist=true
  8. http://www.assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/AssemblyList/MP-Details-EN.asp?MemberID=7597

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