Anders W. Jonsson

Olof Anders Wedin Jonsson, (born Jonsson 24 June 1961 in Svegs Parish, Härjedalen Municipality, Härjedalen, Jämtland County), is a Swedish politician and member of the Riksdag for the constituency Gävleborg County and the parliamentary leader of the Center Party. He takes up seat number 239 in the Riksdag and has been a member of the War Delegation since October 2014. Jonsson grew up in the village of Kälarne in eastern Jämtland, where he began his involvement in the Centre Party's youth organization, Centre Party Youth (CUF). Since September 2011, he has also been the first deputy chairman of the Center Party and its parliamentary leader in the Riksdag.

Biography Anders W. Jonsson was born in Svegs Parish, Härjedalen, Jämtland County, and grew up in Kälarne and lives since the early 1990s on a farm in Hedesunda, in the southernmost part of Gävle Municipality, with his wife and two daughters.

During the 1990s, Jonsson trained as a pediatrician. During a 4-year-period he was director of the pediatric clinic in Gävle. Since 2006, he has been on leave as the chief physician at the same clinic in Gävle. He works approximately one weekend per month as a pediatrician.

During his teenaged years, he was active in the Center Party's Youth Organisation (CUF). On 31 December 2011 Annie Lööf was nominated, and Jonsson took back his candidacy. At the meeting he was elected as vice-party leader.

Term of office 2018–2022 Jonsson has since the beginning of 2020 been a substitute for Annie Lööf as party leader since she is on parental leave. When Annie Lööf came back from her leave Jonsson continues his work as a regular member of the Riksdag and as the Parliamentary leader of the Center Party.