''Anders'' Ingemar Åkesson, (born 28 November 1958) is a Swedish politician and member of the

Riksdag The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ...

for the Center Party since 2006. He is currently taking up seat number 11 for the constituency of

Kalmar County Kalmar County () is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kronoberg, Jönköping, Blekinge and Östergötland. To the east in the Baltic Sea is the island Gotland. The counties are mainly administrative units. Geo ...

. Åkesson has been a headteacher for . From 2004 until 2006 he was a spokesperson in the Regional Association of

. As a newly elected member of parliament, he became a member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs in 2006 and an alternate for the Committee on Foreign Affairs. After the 2010 general election he left both committees to join the Committee on Transport and Communications and the

War Delegation The War Delegation ( sv, krigsdelegationen, or ''KD'') is a standing committee of the Riksdag, with its functions enumerated in the Instrument of Government and the Riksdag Act, with the purpose of replacing the Riksdag as a whole whenever Sweden i ...

along with becoming an alternate for the

election committee The Election Committee is a Hong Kong electoral college, the function of which is to select the Chief Executive (CE) and, since 2021, to elect 40 of the 90 members of the Legislative Council. Established by Annex I of the Basic Law of Hong ...

(). On 9 July 2015, Åkesson received attention from mass media after his driver's license had been revoked after multiple incidents of him speeding. After the 2018 general election Åkesson became the vice-Speaker for the Committee on Transport and Communications succeeding

Jessica Rosencrantz Jessica Emilia Marie Rosencrantz, née ''Andersson'', (born6 October 1987) is a Swedish politician for the Moderate Party, and a minister of the Riksdag since 2010. She is the Moderates traffic-politics spokesperson. In October 2010, Rosencrantz ...

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1958 births Living people Members of the Riksdag from the Centre Party (Sweden) Members of the Riksdag 2006–2010 Members of the Riksdag 2010–2014 Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 21st-century Swedish politicians {{Sweden-SocialDemocratic-politician-stub