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. He's currently serving as member for the Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as Deputy for the Committee on European Union Affairs and in two parliamentary delegations (NATO-PA and the OSCE-PA). Wiechel is the Head of the Swedish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Vice President of the Assembly.

Markus Wiechel
Wiechel in front of the Lejonbacken of the Stockholm Palace
Member of the Riksdag
LeaderJimmie Åkesson
Preceded byLars Isovaara
ConstituencyVästra Götaland North
Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Deputy of the Swedish delegation to OSCE-PA
Deputy of the Swedish delegation to NATO-PA
Chairman of the Swedish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Deputy of the Committee on European Union Affairs
Personal details
Born
Gustaf Markus Wiechel

(1988-04-15) 15 April 1988
Linköping, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Political partySweden Democrats (since 2007)
Alma materLinköping University
ProfessionPolitician
Awards Medal of Honour of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia

He’s previously served as Member for the Committee on Social Insurance, the Committee on Civil Affairs as well as the Swedish delegation to the Nordic Council.

Biography

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. He is the son of Swedish author and ophthalmology expert Kristina Narfström who is a professor at the University of Missouri and the cousin of Swedish Social Democrats politician Björn Wiechel.[2]

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.[3][4][5][6]

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.[7] 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.[8]

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.[9]

On 17 July 2021 Wiechel was awarded the Medal of Honour of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia presented by the Armenian ambassador to Sweden Alexander Arzoumanian. Wiechel was awarded the medal for his work on diplomatic relations between Armenia and Sweden. Also receiving medals a medal were fellow MPs Björn Söder and Arin Karapet as well as Martin Brozek, the International advisor of the Riksdag. Söder received the Mkhitar Gosh Medal while Karapet and Brozek received the same medal as Wiechel.[10][11]

Distinctions
  •   Medal of Honour of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, (Armenia).

References
  1. "David H. Hickman High School Class of 2007, Columbia, Missouri".
  2. Andreas Häggström (22 September 2014). "SD-toppens kusin på riksdagsplats – för S". Expressen. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-12-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Om". 14 April 2009.
  5. "Styrelsen för SD Norrköping 2011". Archived from the original on 2011-08-23.
  6. "Distrikt Östergötland, styrelsen 2010". Archived from the original on 2010-09-25.
  7. "Partistyrelsen | Sverigedemokraterna". Archived from the original on 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
  8. "Markus Wiechel (SD) - Riksdagen". www.riksdagen.se.
  9. "PACE Member File". Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  10. "Djupt hedrad..." (Tweet). twitter.com (in Swedish). Stockholm. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  11. "Ստոկհոլմում..." facebook.com (in Armenian and Swedish). Stockholm: Embassy of Armenia in Stockholm. Retrieved 19 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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