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Mr Markus WIECHEL (Sweden, EC/DA)

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Representative
Member of the Riksdag
Sweden Democrats

Sveriges Riksdag
SE - 100 12 - Stockholm
Sweden

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance since 05/10/2019
  • Member: European Conservatives Group from 29/06/2018 to 04/10/2019
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 18/04/2016 to 28/06/2018

In the Assembly

  • since 21/01/2019 Representative - Sweden
  • from 18/04/2016 to 20/01/2019 Substitute - Sweden

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 23/01/2023)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (since 23/01/2023)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (since 23/01/2023)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (since 25/11/2022)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 19/04/2021 to 26/01/2023)
  • Member: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 30/09/2019 to 26/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 18/04/2016 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Jessica STEGRUD (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 23/01/2023 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Momodou Malcolm JALLOW (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 21/01/2019 to 24/11/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Michael SVENSSON (Full Member): Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 22/01/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Boriana ÅBERG (Full Member): Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 24/04/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Tina GHASEMI (Full Member): Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 18/04/2016 to 23/04/2017)

Interventions

Last speeches

03/10/2024 | 10:44:24 Mister President, I am most grateful to our rapporteur Mr Knut ABRAHAM for having prepared such a clearly written and factual report on one of the worst crimes on our continent committed in the last century, namely the deliberate starving to death of an estimated 10 million Ukrainians in the early 1930s. For two years in a row, the harvest in Ukraine was confiscated by Stalin’s henchmen, and then either destroyed or taken to other parts of the Soviet Union. Not even the seeds foreseen for the... 02/10/2024 | 18:54:51 Thank you very much. And the debate is closed. The Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) has presented a draft resolution [Doc. 16039] to which two amendments have been tabled. I remind you that speeches on amendments are limited to 30 seconds. Any amendment which has been unanimously approved by the Committee seized for report shall not be put to the vote in plenary and shall be declared as definitively... 02/10/2024 | 18:03:28 Thank you very much. The debate is closed. The Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons has presented a draft resolution and a draft recommendation [Doc. 16050], to which no amendments have been tabled. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Doc. 16050. A simple majority is required. The vote is open. And the vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. And the draft resolution in Document 16050 is adopted unanimously. Congratulations.   We... 01/10/2024 | 20:37:42 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   Mr President, The situation in Iran is, to put it mildly, really bad. Individual freedoms have suffered badly, not least for women. Desperate popular protests are being crushed with extreme violence by the ruthless servants of the illegitimate Islamic dictatorship. The country’s theocratic leadership uses the Islamic Revolutionary Guard to attack the broader population when they protest against runaway inflation and the regime’s apparent... 01/10/2024 | 20:37:29 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   Mr President, At its session last January, the Assembly voted to deprive the Azerbaijani delegation of its voting rights for the year 2024. Seventy-six Assembly members - a clear majority - voted in favor of this proposal. Ironically, me and the other seventy-five members, were declared persona non grata in Azerbaijan. It must be hard to find a better way for the Azeri regime to show us that our decision was right. The reason for such...

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