- Fredrick Federley
Bengt Fredrick Federley (born
6 May 1978 ) is a Swedish Centre Partypolitician , member of theParliament of Sweden since 2006.cite web
url=http://www.riksdagen.se/webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1811&iid=0868286862422
title=Fredrick Federley (c)
accessdate=2008-04-06
publisher=Parliament of Sweden ]Youth and education
Federley was born in
Munktorp inKöping Municipality ,Västmanland County , but grew up in nearbyKungsör . He did his military service at S1 inEnköping from 1997 to 1998. He later went on to study legal- andpolitical science atÖrebro University . He later moved toJakobsberg and to work as a political editor of the newspaper "Norrtelje Tidning ".Political career
Federley joined the Centre Party Youth during the 1994 election, 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 he was elected a member of the
municipal council 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 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. OnOctober 18 ,2002 , Federley was unanimously elected new chairman of the Centre Party Youth, succeedingMalin Svensson . He had the post until May 2007, when Magnus Andersson was elected.In the 2006 election Federley was elected a member of the Riksdag for the Stockholm Municipality constituency, along with the actress
Solveig Ternström . 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.References
External links
* [http://www.federley.se/ www.federley.se] , official website
* [http://federley.blogspot.com/ federley.blogspot.com] , primary (political) blog
* [http://www.hanky.se/federley Federleys andra sida] , secondary (more personal) blog
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