Runar Filper
Runar Filper | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Riksdag | |
| Assumed office 2014 | |
| Constituency | Värmland County |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 May 1964 |
| Party | Sweden Democrats |
| Alma mater | Università per Stranieri di Perugia Karlstad University |
Runar Salvatore Toto Schillaci Filper (born 26 May 1964) is a Swedish politician and a member of the Riksdag for the Sweden Democrats party. He represents the Värmland County constituency.
Biography
[edit]Filper was born in 1964. He graduated with a technical qualification in carpentry, building and civil engineering and worked in various jobs including as a welder, a park warden and as a sailor in Denmark. He then obtained a degree in the Italian language and history at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Italy and became a museum curator before finally completing a bachelor's degree in political science and geography at Karlstad University in 2009 after which he became an organizer for the Sweden Democrats.[1]
Filper has been a member of the municipal council for Sunne Municipality and the SD's district chairman for Värmland County since 2002.[2] He was elected as a member of the Riksdag since 2014 and was re-elected at the 2022 Swedish general election. He is a member of the Culture Committee and a deputy member of the Committee on the Environment and Agriculture.[3] Following his election in 2014, there was some controversy when it was revealed that he had previously been convicted of theft and assault in the 1980s.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Runar Filper (SD)". Retrieved 7 February 2025.
- ↑ kommun, Sunne. "Filper Runar (SD)". Sunne kommun.
- ↑ "Runar Filper (SD) - Riksdagen". www.riksdagen.se.
- ↑ Brottslingar får inte företräda Sverigedemokraterna – SVT, 7 april 2008
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