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Mr Markus WIECHEL (Sweden, ECPA)

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Representative
Member of the Riksdag
Sweden Democrats

Sveriges Riksdag
SE - 100 12 - Stockholm
Sweden

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2026 , 2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: European Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates since 03/02/2025
  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 05/10/2019 to 03/02/2025
  • 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: Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 26/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 23/01/2023)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 23/01/2023 to 26/01/2025)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 23/01/2023 to 26/01/2025)
  • 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: (Former) 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): (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 22/01/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Boriana ÅBERG (Full Member): (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 24/04/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Tina GHASEMI (Full Member): (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 18/04/2016 to 23/04/2017)

Interventions

Last speeches

30/09/2026 | 19:25:53 Thank you, Madam President and dear colleagues, This debate is about a simple fact: Russia still owes justice for violations committed while it was bound by the European Convention on Human Rights. Exclusion from this organisation did not cancel those judgements. Article 46 from the Convention still applies to every case that became final before 16 September, 2022. The record is not abstract. The Court has documented rape used as a weapon of war, indiscriminate bombings of civilians, murder... 29/09/2026 | 18:58:51 Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear colleagues, A nation is not a waiting room. It is a home that already exists, a language, a law, a memory and a people who carry responsibility for what comes next. When we speak of integration, we must speak plainly. Those who settle among us are asked to enter a political community that was here before they arrived and will remain after we are gone. That is not hostility; it is the ordinary meaning of belonging, and courtesy is not the same as self-erasure... 29/09/2026 | 17:25:54 Thank you, Mr President and distinguished colleagues. Europe has not seen a generation of veterans like this since 1945. Not because we chose war, but because the Russian Federation chose a ruthless conquest. More than 2 million Ukrainians have already served. Hundreds of thousands carry wounds that will last a lifetime. Tens of thousands have lost limbs. Families have lost fathers, mothers, sons and daughters. That is not a statistic. This is a price paid so that the rest of this continent... 24/06/2026 | 19:14:40 Distinguished colleagues, Russia's full scale war of aggression against Ukraine is not only an attack on a sovereign nation, it's also an attack on food itself. Before the invasion, Ukraine fed approximately 400 million people worldwide. Today, Russian forces have devastated its agricultural heartland. Ports have been blocked, grain silos bombed and hundreds of thousands of hectares mined. Energy infrastructure has been systematically targeted to cripple food production and storage. The World... 24/06/2026 | 16:54:04 Mister President and distinguished colleagues. As a Parliamentarian deeply involved with and committed to working with democracy, the rule of law and human dignity, I find the situation in Azerbaijan both alarming and unacceptable. The facts speak for themselves. Azerbaijan now ranks 171 out of 180 countries in press freedom. Not a single independent media outlet operates inside the country. Thirty-six journalists are currently detained, and there are 328 reported political prisoners. This is...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions