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.Mattias Bäckström Johansson (SD) blir ny vice gruppledare 2019-11-29 (in Swedish) He has been Member of the Riksdag since September 2014, representing Västernorrland County from 2014 to 2018, and Kalmar County from 2018 onwards. He currently takes up seat number 256 in the Riksdag.
Biography Bäckström Johansson was born in 1985 in Oskarshamn. He 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 until his election to the Riksdag.
He has two children from a previous marriage and according to a profile in Aftonbladet has been in a relationship with media personality Rebecka Fallenkvist since 2023.
Political career Bäckström Johansson was a member of the Moderate Youth League, the youth-wing of the Moderate Party until 2000 and then joined the Sweden Democratic Youth in 2002. 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.
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.
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External links Mattias Bäckström Johansson at the Riksdag