Fredrick Federley
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Sweden
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Centre Party
Centre Party (Sweden)
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politician
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, member of the Parliament of Sweden
Parliament of Sweden
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since 2006.
Youth and education
Federley was born in MunktorpMunktorp
Munktorp is a locality situated in Köping Municipality, Västmanland County, Sweden with 485 inhabitants in 2005.Munktorp is the site of the historic Munktorp Church . The church is associated with St. David of Munktorp , an Anglo-Saxon monk of the 11th century. The oldest parts of the church date...
in Köping Municipality
Köping Municipality
Köping Municipality is a municipality in Västmanland County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Köping.The municipality was created in 1971, when the former City of Köping was merged with the municipalities of Kolsva, Medåker and Munktorp forming a new municipality of unitary...
, Västmanland County
Västmanland County
Västmanland County is a county or län in central Sweden. It borders to the counties of Södermanland, Örebro, Gävleborg, Dalarna and Uppsala...
, but grew up in nearby Kungsör
Kungsör
Kungsör is a locality and the seat of Kungsör Municipality in Västmanland County, Sweden with 5,610 inhabitants in 2005.- References :...
. He did his military service at S1
Upplands regemente (signal)
Upplands regemente , designations Ing 3, S 1 and S 1/Fo 47, was a Swedish Army signal regiment that traced its origins back to the 19th century. It was disbanded in 2006...
in Enköping
Enköping
Enköping is a locality and the seat of Enköping Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 20,204 inhabitants in 2005.- Geography :Enköping is situated near Lake Mälaren, about 78 km west of Stockholm....
from 1997 to 1998. He later went on to study legal
Legal science
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- and political science
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at Örebro University
Örebro University
Örebro University is a state university in Örebro, Sweden.University-level education in Örebro started in 1960s, when Uppsala University started to give some courses in Örebro. On the basis of these activities, an independent högskola was created in 1977 under the name Högskolan i Örebro...
. He later moved to Jakobsberg
Jakobsberg
Jakobsberg is a suburban area within Stockholm urban area, and the seat of Järfälla Municipality, Stockholm County in Sweden.Jakobsberg, Järfälla's commercial and administrative centre, grew up around the railway. In the 1940s, blocks of flats were built and the municipal council moved its offices...
and to work as a political editor of the newspaper Norrtelje Tidning.
Federley is openly gay.
Political career
Federley joined the Centre Party Youth during the 1994 electionSwedish general election, 1994
The Swedish general election, 1994 for the 349 seats in the Parliament of Sweden took place on 18 September 1994....
, and started a local branch of the organization together with a friend. A year and a half later he became vice chairman of the Centre Party Youth Västmanland district, and the following year chairman of the district (a post he kept until October 2000). In the 1998 election
Swedish general election, 1998
-Election results:Here are the results of the general election to the Parliament of Sweden , held on 20 September 1998.← Riksdag election, 1998 →PartyVotes%SeatsEq¹Party leader/Comment...
he was elected a member of the municipal council
Municipal council
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in Kungsör. In the spring of 2000 he was elected vice chairman of the Centre Party Västmanland district (a post he kept until the spring of 2002). In the 2002 election
Swedish general election, 2002
The Swedish general election of 2002 was held on Sunday 15 September to elect the 349 members to the Parliament of Sweden. This election was hels along with other elections in Sweden to the Municipalities and the County Councils. 5,385,430 of the 6,722,152 eligible to vote voted in this election .-...
he was the Centre Party candidate to receive most votes in the Västmanland County constituency, but due to the 8%-rule regarding personal votes the mandate instead went to the first name on the list. On October 18, 2002, Federley was unanimously elected new chairman of the Centre Party Youth, succeeding Malin Svensson. He had the post until May 2007, when Magnus Andersson
Magnus Andersson (politician)
Per Magnus Andersson, born on the 16th of October 1981 is a Swedish politician and previous chairman of the Centre Party Youth, .Andersson, born in Segersta outside of Bollnäs and now living in Solna outside of Stockholm since 2007, grew up with a single mother. His father is Egyptian and lives in...
was elected.
In the 2006 election
Swedish general election, 2006
A general election was held in Sweden on 17 September 2006, to elect members to the Swedish parliament. All 349 seats were up for election: 310 "fixed seats" in 29 constituencies and 39 members at a national level for what are called "adjustment seats", used to ensure that parties have...
Federley was elected a member of the Riksdag for the Stockholm Municipality constituency, along with the actress Solveig Ternström
Solveig Ternström
Solveig Ternström is a Swedish actress and was Centre Party politician. She was a member of the Riksdag between 2006 and 2010. She is very negative to nuclear power and left the centre party because she was disappointed to them regarding their updated politics about nuclear power.-External links:*...
. He is a member of the Riksdag's Committee on Social Insurance and the OSCE delegation, and a substitute to the Committee on European Union Affairs. He was re-elected in the 2010 election
Swedish general election, 2010
A general election to the Riksdag, parliament of Sweden, was held on . The main contenders of the election were the governing centre-right coalition the Alliance and the oppositional centre-left Red-Greens coalition A general election to the Riksdag, parliament of Sweden, was held on . The main...
.
Independent voice
When the Swedish Government announced that it intended to increase the penalty for purchasing sexProstitution in Sweden
The laws on prostitution in Sweden make it illegal to buy sexual services, but not to sell them. Pimping, procuring and operating a brothel are also illegal...
from six months to one year's imprisonment, effective July 1, 2011,
and debated and voted on this on May 12, 2011, the vote was: For 282 Against 1.
The sole opponent was Federley, however he claimed that attempts were made to prevent him from speaking against the proposal by the Centre Party
Centre Party (Sweden)
The Centre Party is a centrist political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden and describes itself as "a green social liberal party". The ideology is sometimes called agrarian, but in a European context, the Centre Party can perhaps best be characterized as social...
External links
- www.federley.se, official website
- federley.blogspot.com, primary (political) blog
- Federleys andra sida, secondary (more personal) blog