Erik Bengtzboe (born February 9, 1987, in

Nyköping Nyköping () is a locality and the seat of Nyköping Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 32,759 inhabitants as of 2017. The city is also the capital of Södermanland County. Including Arnö, the locality on the southern shore of th ...

Södermanland Södermanland ( or ), locally Sörmland, sometimes referred to under its Latin form ''Sudermannia'' or ''Sudermania'', is a historical province or ''landskap'' on the south eastern coast of Sweden. It borders Östergötland, Närke, Västman ...

) is a Swedish

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politician who was

Member of the Riksdag Members of Parliament ( Swedish: ''riksdagsledamöter'', singular: ''riksdagsledamot'') in Sweden sit in the Riksdag. Description ''Members of Parliament'' refers to the elected members of the Riksdag. In Swedish, an MP is usually referred to ...

from January 2015 to April 2019. Bengtzboe served as chairman of the Moderate Youth League from 2010 to 2014.Bengtzboe becomes the new Chairman
of the Moderate Youth League He was also a

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from 2010 to 2011 as he was chosen to fill the spot from his Moderate Party colleague and the former

Speaker of the Riksdag (English: "Mr Speaker") , residence = , seat = Parliament House , nominator = Riksdag , appointer = The Alderman , termlength = Four years (''de facto'') , inaugural = Henry Allard , formation ...

Per Westerberg.Erik Bengtzboe
on the Riksdag website He resigned on 26 April 2019 following Aftonbladet's report series "The Politician's Receipts". The newspaper's articles showed that Bengtzboe received SEK 158,000 in allowances and compensation for an overnight apartment in Stockholm, since he was recorded with his mother in Nyköping, while his wife and children were recorded in the apartment. Previously, he served as chairman of the Moderate School Youth and association board member of the Moderate Youth League. Besides politics, he studies Industrial Engineering and Management at

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in Stockholm. However, he has taken a study break for his political commitments. From October 2010 until January 2011 he served as a replacement

. When he would become a replacement member of the Riksdag in September 2014, officially became a member of the Riksdag in December 2014. In January 2015 he joined the Committee on Education, he stayed in the committee until February 2019 when he joined and later became the second vice-Speaker of the Committee on the Labour Market in March 2019. He left all his positions in the Riksdag on 26 April 2019.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bengtzboe, Erik 1987 births Living people Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag from the Moderate Party