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Mr Markus WIECHEL

Photo member

Representative
Member of the Riksdag
Sweden Democrats

Sveriges Riksdag
SE - 100 12 - Stockholm
Sweden

markus.wiechel@riksdagen.se

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2020 , 2019 , 2018

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)

  • 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 (since 21/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 18/04/2016 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Momodou Malcolm JALLOW (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 21/01/2019)
  • 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

30/01/2020 | 10:52:55 Mr President, We're now debating a very important issue and the path that our member states choose to take in this matter will change our societies. The basic plea made in the report as to, as soon as possible and without hesitation, take care of especially children of Islamic State terrorists and to move them out of squalid camps in Syria and Iraq to European countries. However, international conventions prohibit children from being separated from their parents. At the same time, if a parent... 25/06/2019 | 16:36:12 Madam President, It is of extreme importance for the future of our societies that the Istanbul Convention on violence against women is successfully implemented across Europe. For if we cannot stop the present dramatic rise in the physical, mental and social abuse of so many women, then our western civilisation will not endure for long, based as it is on human rights and equality - including between the sexes. My own country, Sweden, got its first laws protecting women over 700 years ago, in...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

05/02/2020 | Doc. 15078 | Motion for a resolution Food ethics in Europe: a citizen's issue that concerns all of us 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15063 | Written declaration The members of national delegations signing this declaration regret the approval, by the Assembly, of the credentials submitted by the Russian Federation 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15064 | Written declaration Baku pogroms 15/10/2019 | Doc. 14918 | Written declaration Investigating and preventing corruption at the Council of Europe 03/07/2019 | Doc. 14870 | Written declaration Concerns about reports of crackdown on members of the LGBTI community in Azerbaijan

Votes on adopted texts

31/01/2020 | Doc. 15028, vote on the draft text for resolution Democracy hacked? How to respond? 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15055, vote on the draft text for resolution International obligations concerning the repatriation of children from war and conflict zones 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15055, vote on the draft text for recommendation International obligations concerning the repatriation of children from war and conflict zones 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15020, vote on the draft text for resolution Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15020, vote on the draft text for recommendation Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan