22 Facts About Fredrick Federley

Fredrick Federley was a member of the Centre Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

Fredrick Federley was a member of the Parliament of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and MEP since 1 July 2014.

Fredrick Federley was first elected to the parliament of Sweden in 2006, and remained a member up until 2014.

Fredrick Federley was Vice President of the Renew Europe group in the European parliament since July 2019.

Fredrick Federley was born in Munktorp in Koping Municipality, Vastmanland County, but grew up in nearby Kungsor.

Fredrick Federley did his military service at Uppland Regiment in Enkoping from 1997 to 1998.

Fredrick Federley later went on to study legal- and political science at Orebro University.

Fredrick Federley later moved to Jakobsberg and to work as a political editor of the newspaper Norrtelje Tidning.

Fredrick Federley joined the Centre Party Youth during the 1994 election, and started a local branch of the organization together with a friend.

On 18 October 2002 Fredrick Federley was unanimously elected new chairman of the Centre Party Youth, succeeding Malin Svensson.

Fredrick Federley had the post until May 2007, when Magnus Andersson was elected.

Fredrick Federley was a member of the Riksdag's Committee on Social Insurance and the Swedish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and a substitute to the Committee on European Union Affairs.

Fredrick Federley was elected Member of the European Parliament in the elections held on 25 May 2014, defeating the incumbent Center Party MEP, Kent Johansson.

Fredrick Federley is a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Fredrick Federley is vice president for the European Parliament's delegation to the Pan-African Parliament.

On 1 September 2015 Fredrick Federley announced that he was running for President of the ALDE Party.

Fredrick Federley later stepped down to candidate as vice president along with the presidential candidate Siim Kallas; Kallas did not make it, but Federley was elected vice president under the new president Hans van Baalen.

Fredrick Federley ran for president of the group against, among others, Dacian Ciolos and Sophie in 't Veld but dropped out of the race after it was clear that Ciolos had secured enough votes to win.

Fredrick Federley was appointed Vice president of the group and in November 2019 he was appointed to Chair of the Renew Europe working group for Sustainability and structural policies, the working group that handles the majority of EU spending.

Fredrick Federley has taken seats as ordinary member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and is a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

On 11 December 2020, Fredrick Federley resigned from all politics immediately.

In 2017, Fredrick Federley was instrumental in blocking Five Star Movement from joining the ALDE group, which was widely interpreted as a first sign of organized rebellion against group leader Guy Verhofstadt.