Olof ''Anders'' Wedin Jonsson, (born ''Jonsson'' 24 June 1961 in Svegs Parish,

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), is a Swedish politician and member of the Riksdag for the constituency Gävleborg County and the

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of the Center Party. He takes up seat number 239 in the Riksdag and has been a member of the

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since October 2014. Jonsson grew up in the village of Kälarne in eastern Jämtland, where he began his involvement in the Centre Party's

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'' (CUF). Since September 2011, he has also been the first deputy chairman of the Center Party and its parliamentary leader in the Riksdag. At the beginning of 2020 he was the substitute leader of the Center Party, substituting for

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during her

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Biography

Anders W. Jonsson was born in Svegs Parish,

, and grew up in Kälarne and lives since the early 1990s on a farm in

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, in the southernmost part of

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, with his wife and two daughters. During the 1990s, Jonsson trained as a pediatrician. During a 4-year-period he was director of the pediatric clinic in Gävle. Since 2006, he has been on leave as the chief physician at the same clinic in Gävle. He works approximately one weekend per month as a pediatrician. During his teenaged years, he was active in the Center Party's Youth Organisation ( CUF). The issues he considered most important at the time were the fight against

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and the opposition to

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and the Social Democrats' relocation policy. He ended his time at CUF by being the union's first vice president between 1987 and 1989. During the period 1989–1993, Jonsson was chairman of the National Council of Swedish Youth Organizations, LSU (). Jonsson's political involvement then continued in the Center Party as a member of the

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and for nine years as district chairman in Gävleborg County.

Tasks in the Riksdag

At the Center Party's party meeting in

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, Anders W. Jonsson was appointed the party's 1st vice-chairman. In October 2011, Anders W. Jonsson was appointed group leader in the Riksdag. He succeeded

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. During the term of office 2006–2010, Jonsson worked as a negotiator at the Center Party's Coordination Office at the Prime Minister's Office. He was responsible for the Ministry of Social Affairs' issues and worked with issues dealt with by Minister of Social Affairs Göran Hägglund, Minister of the Elderly and Public Health

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, and Minister of Social Insurance Cristina Husmark Pehrsson. In the 2010 parliamentary elections, Jonsson was elected to the Swedish Parliament and took a seat on the Riksdag's Health and Welfare Committee. He is also a member of the National Audit Office's board and a deputy on the Social Insurance Committee. His political interests mainly concern entrepreneurship, child policy, and healthcare. Since the 2010 election, Jonsson has been a member of the Center Party's election analysis group, which, led by

, analyzed the previous term, the election movement, and the Center Party's election results in 2010. He was also chairman of the renewal group tasked with working on a renewed welfare policy.

Term of office 2010–2014

Jonsson was one out of three main candidates to take over the position as the party leader of the Center Party during the party meeting in

in September 2011. On 31 December 2011 Annie Lööf was nominated, and Jonsson took back his candidacy. At the meeting he was elected as vice-party leader.

Term of office 2018–2022

Jonsson has since the beginning of 2020 been a substitute for Annie Lööf as party leader since she is on

. When Annie Lööf came back from her leave Jonsson continues his work as a regular member of the Riksdag and as the Parliamentary leader of the Center Party.

References

External links

Anders W. Jonsson on Wikimedia Commons

Anders W. Jonssons Blog

Anders W. Jonsson on the Swedish Riksdag's website

Things that have been on and said by Anders W. Jonsson.

Anders W. Jonsson on Facebook.

Center Party's candidates for party leader

About Anders W. Jonsson, candidacy
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