''Douglas'' Verner Thor (born 11 December 1997) is a

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politician of the

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. He has been national chairman of the

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since 2022.

Life and career

Thor was born on 11 December 1997 in Nävelsjö (outside

Vetlanda Vetlanda () is a locality and the seat of Vetlanda Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 13,050 inhabitants in 2010. History Vetlanda was still nothing more than a village for several centuries. With the 1840s population boom in Småland ...

) in

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, Sweden. Thor was district chairman of the Moderate Youth League in Jönköping County from 2018 to 2021 and national chairman of the Moderate Students from 2021 to 2022. He was member of the

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Vetlanda Municipality Vetlanda Municipality (''Vetlanda kommun'') is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden. The town of Vetlanda is the municipality's seat. The municipality was created in 1971 when the ''City of Vetlanda'' (instituted in 1920) was am ...

from October 2018 to May 2020, when he resigned to begin studies at

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. During the youth leagues congress in November 2022, Thor challenged incumbent Matilda Ekeblad as chairman of the Moderate Youth League and won with the votes 52–49. In March 2023, Thor received negative publicity for having tried to influence the election of a district chairman in Jämtland County by suggesting that existing members could pay for new members' membership fees; his preferred candidate did not win. The

s investigation stated that although Thor's action had been very bad, no new members could be linked to this occasion.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thor, Douglas 1997 births Living people Moderate Party politicians People from Vetlanda Municipality