Niklas Åke Wykman is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 politician

Politician

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 and former chairman of the Moderate Youth League

Moderate Youth League

The Moderate Youth League , officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives, is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. It had 12 051 members in 2010...

, the youth wing of the Swedish liberal-conservative Moderate Party

Moderate Party

The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament...

.

Wykman joined the Moderate Youth League in 1997 and was also chairman of the Moderate School Youth from 2000 to 2001. He was elected new chairman of the Moderate Youth League at its congress in Sollentuna on November 25, 2006, winning over the election committee's candidate Mattias Thorsson with the votes 63–49.

Until being elected chairman of the Moderate Youth League, Wykman was a student of mathematical statistics

Mathematical statistics

Mathematical statistics is the study of statistics from a mathematical standpoint, using probability theory as well as other branches of mathematics such as linear algebra and analysis...

 at Stockholm University

Stockholm University

Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...

 and worked as a team leader at a call centre

Call centre

A call centre or call center is a centralised office used for the purpose of receiving and transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone. A call centre is operated by a company to administer incoming product support or information inquiries from consumers. Outgoing calls for telemarketing,...

. During the 2003 referendum on Sweden adopting the Euro as their currency Wykman worked for the center-right No-campaign Medborgare mot EMU.

Controversial statements by Wykman in relation to the Israeli boarding of the Free Gaza Movements "Freedom Flotilla" in June 2010

After the boarding of the Free Gaza Movements "Freedom Flotilla

Gaza flotilla raid

The Gaza flotilla raid was a military operation by Israel against six ships of the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" on 31 May 2010 in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea...

" by israel

Israel

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i troops in June 2010, Niklas Wykman declared on his Facebook webpage that "I feel eased now when Hamas does not receive the visits they had expected. It is a victory for the whole of Gaza

Gaza

Gaza , also referred to as Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of about 450,000, making it the largest city in the Palestinian territories.Inhabited since at least the 15th century BC,...

! [The Swedish] Ship to Gaza are useful idiots, terrorists, and ideologically driven aiming to genocide Israel" The statements received strong criticism from representatives from most political parties, including Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt

Fredrik Reinfeldt

John Fredrik Reinfeldt is the Prime Minister of Sweden, leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party and former President of the European Council...

, who recognized the humanitarian aspects of the solidarity movement.

External links

• Wykman's blog