Mattias Bäckström Johansson | |
Honorific-Suffix: | SD |
1Blankname: | Party Leader |
1Namedata: | Jimmie Åkesson |
Term Start: | 17 October 2022 |
Predecessor: | Richard Jomshof |
Office8: | Deputy Leader of the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag |
1Blankname8: | Party Leader |
1Namedata8: | Jimmie Åkesson |
2Blankname8: | Riksdag Leader |
2Namedata8: | Henrik Vinge |
Term Start8: | 25 November 2019 |
Term End8: | 25 October 2022 |
Predecessor8: | Henrik Vinge |
Successor8: | Linda Lindberg |
Office9: | Member of the Riksdag |
Term Start9: | 29 September 2014 |
Constituency9: | Kalmar County (2018–) Västernorrland County (2014–2018) |
Birth Name: | Anders Torleif Mattias Bäckström Johansson |
Birth Date: | 25 July 1985 |
Birth Place: | Järfälla, Sweden |
Party: | Sweden Democrats |
Parents: |
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Occupation: | Reactor operator |
Alma Mater: | Kalmar Maritime University (Linnaeus University) |
Anders Torleif Mattias Bäckström Johansson (born 25 July 1985) is a Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats. He has served as Secretary-General of the Sweden Democrats since 2022, having previously served as Deputy Leader of the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from 2019 to 2022.[1] He has been Member of the Riksdag since September 2014, representing Västernorrland County 2014–2018 and Kalmar County from 2018 onwards. He currently takes up seat number 256 in the Riksdag.
Bäckström Johansson studied marine engineering at the Kalmar Maritime University (a branch of Linnaeus University) and worked as a power station reactor operator at the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant.[2] [3]
He is a member of the municipal council for Oskarshamn Municipality 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 Kalmar County.[4]
He was first elected to the Riksdag during the 2014 Swedish general election and has been a member of the Industry and Trade Committee since. He is also a member of War Delegation since April 2020, and a member of the (The Election Review Board) since March 2019, a position he was previously an alternate for.