Charlie Andreas Weimers (born November 12, 1982) is a center-right Swedish

Sweden

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 politician. He was Chairman of the Swedish Young Christian Democrats (Kristdemokratiska Ungdomsförbundet - KDU) 2008-2010. He was elected Vice President of the Youth of the European People's Party

Youth of the European People's Party

Youth of the European People's Party is an umbrella organization of European political youth organisations and is the official youth wing of the European People's Party. YEPP bring together over 54 Centre-Right youth political organisations from over 35 countries all over Europe...

 at the 6th YEPP Congress in Stockholm in May 2007.

Weimers was born in Karlstad

Karlstad

Karlstad is a city, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city had 61,685 inhabitants in 2010 out of a municipal total that during the first quarter 2010 was 84,885 inhabitants...

, and currently lives in Hammarö

Hammarö

Hammarö can mean:*Hammarö Municipality - a municipality of Värmland County in Sweden, located on Hammarön*Hammarön - an island in Lake Vänern where the municipality is situated...

. He joined the Christian Democrats and the Young Christian Democrats in 1998. He served as the district chairman of KDU-Värmland from 2000–2001 and again from 2003-04. He was elected to the KDU national board in 2003. He lost a close race for chairmanship of the KDU in 2005 to Ella Bohlin

Ella Bohlin

Ella Bohlin is a Christian Democratic politician in Sweden and was the leader of the Christian Democratic Youth League of Sweden between 2005 and 2008. She was the top candidate of her party in the 2009 elections to the European Parliament, but wasn't elected...

, a more centrist candidate. Weimers was later elected first vice chairman of KDU at the national convention in 2005. He pursued graduate studies in Karlstad University

Karlstad University

Karlstad University is a state university in Karlstad, Sweden. The university, being a former university college was granted university status in 1999 by the Government of Sweden. Originally it was a branch of the University of Gothenburg...

's political science

Political science

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 program.

Weimers was elected to the Hammarö

Hammarö Municipality

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 Municipal Council in 2002. He was elected again in 2006, and currently serves as party leader for the Christian Democrats in the council. He has also been a member of the Värmland

Värmland

' is a historical province or landskap in the west of middle Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland and Närke. It is also bounded by Norway in the west. Latin name versions are Vermelandia and Wermelandia. Although the province's land originally was Götaland, the...

Regional Council since 2006.

He was elected chairman of the KDU in 2008.