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Fredrik Malm

Carl Fredrik Malm (born 2 May 1977 in Stockholm) is a Swedish politician and Member of Parliament for the Liberal People's Party. He was chairperson of the Liberal Youth of Sweden from 2002 to 2006.

He is a member of parliament since 2014. Since 2022 he is the chair of the committee of education and since November 2021 he is second vice chair of the Liberal People's Party.

Fredrik Malm grew up in Skarpnäck, Stockholm. After school he worked as an editor for Swedish publications such as Expo, Upsala Nya Tidning, Eskilstuna-Kuriren, Gefle Dagblad and Liberala Nyhetsbyrån.

Malm supported the pro-EU side in the referendum regarding Swedish EU-membership in 1994. Between 1997 and 1999 Malm was the president of the Liberal youth party district of Stockholm. He was a member of Stockholm city council between 2002 - 2006 and since 2006 Malm is a member of parliament.

Malm is a supporter of an independent Kurdistan and of the democracy movement in Cuba. He started the project Cuba Free Library. In January 2006 he received the "Kurdish Friend of the Year"-award by the Kurdistan regional government.

In 2010 Malm was appointed to be the foreign affairs spokesperson for the Liberal People's party. 2021 he assumed the position of spokesperson for education and was elected to be vice chair of the committee of education.

Malm has expressed his support for the democracy movement in Iran, and is calling for tougher sanctions against the country, which he has been criticized for by Hans Linde, a member of the Left Party Since 2020, he has been serving as co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 Fredrik Malm has, together with Gunnar Hökmark revived the weekly manifestations known as the "Monday movement", originally conceived as a movement in support of Baltic freedom from the Soviet Union, but this time in support of Ukraine.

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