Anders Torleif ''Mattias'' Bäckström Johansson (born 25 July 1985) is a Swedish politician of the

Sweden Democrats The Sweden Democrats ( , SD ) is a Nationalism, nationalist and Right-wing populism, right-wing populist political party in Sweden founded in 1988. As of 2024, it is the largest member of Sweden's Right-wing politics, right-wing bloc and the sec ...

. He has served as Secretary-General of the

since 2022, having previously served as Deputy Leader of the

in the

Riksdag The Riksdag ( , ; also or , ) is the parliament and the parliamentary sovereignty, supreme decision-making body of the Kingdom of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral parliament with 349 members (), elected proportional rep ...

from 2019 to 2022. He has been

Member of the Riksdag Members of Parliament (Swedish language, 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 us ...

since September 2014, representing

Västernorrland County Västernorrland County () is a county ('' län'') in the north of Sweden. It is bordered by the counties of Gävleborg, Jämtland, Västerbotten and the Gulf of Bothnia. The name ''Västernorrland'' means "Western Norrland", as it was in the ...

from 2014 to 2018, and

Kalmar County Kalmar County () is a Counties of Sweden, county or ''län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kronoberg County, Kronoberg, Jönköping County, Jönköping, Blekinge County, Blekinge and Östergötland County, Östergötland. To the ...

from 2018 onwards. He currently takes up seat number 256 in the Riksdag.

Biography

Bäckström Johansson was born in 1985 in

Oskarshamn Oskarshamn is a coastal city and the seat of Oskarshamn Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 17,258 inhabitants in 2010. History Etymology Döderhultsvik was the original name before a town charter was granted in 1856. The name was then chan ...

. He studied

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at the Kalmar Maritime University (a branch of

Linnaeus University Linnaeus University (LNU) () is a state university in the Swedish historical province (''landskap'') Småland, with campuses located in Växjö and Kalmar. Linnaeus University was established in 2010 by a merger of former Växjö University a ...

) and worked as a power station

reactor operator A reactor operator (or nuclear reactor operator) is an individual at a nuclear power plant who is responsible for directly controlling a nuclear reactor from a control panel and is the only individual at a nuclear power plant who can directly alt ...

at the

Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant The Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant is one of three active nuclear power stations in Sweden. The plant is about north of Oskarshamn, directly at the Kalmarsund at the Baltic Sea coast and with one active reactor, producing about 10% of the elec ...

until his election to the Riksdag. He has two children from a previous marriage and according to a profile in ''

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'' has been in a relationship with media personality Rebecka Fallenkvist since 2023.

Political career

Bäckström Johansson was a member of the

Moderate Youth League The Moderate Youth League ( ; MUF), officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives, is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. Of the political youth organizations that received financial support from the Swedish Agency ...

, the youth-wing of the

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until 2000 and then joined the

Sweden Democratic Youth Sweden Democratic Youth ( ; SDU) was the youth league of the Swedish political party Sweden Democrats until 12 September 2015. History Background The initial version of the youth league was founded in 1993 as an independent organization to it ...

in 2002. He is a member of the

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...

for

Oskarshamn Municipality Oskarshamn Municipality () is a municipality in Kalmar County in south-eastern Sweden, where the city Oskarshamn is seat. The amalgamations in the present municipality took place in 1967 when three rural municipalities joined the ''City of Oskars ...

for the Sweden Democrats, having first been elected in 2006. From 2010 until 2014 Bäckström Johansson was also a member of the regional council for

. He was first elected to the Riksdag during the

2014 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden on 14 September 2014 to elect all 349 seats in the Riksdag, alongside elections for the 21 2014 Swedish county council elections, county councils, and 290 2014 Swedish municipal elections, municipal assembli ...

and has been a member of the Industry and Trade Committee since. He is also a member of

War Delegation The War Delegation (, 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 is at war or is otherwi ...

since April 2020, and a member of the (The Election Review Board) since March 2019, a position he was previously an alternate for.

References

External links

Mattias Bäckström Johansson
at the

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bäckström Johansson, Mattias Living people 1985 births Members of the Riksdag from the Sweden Democrats People from Järfälla Municipality Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag 2022–2026