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{{Infobox
|name = Björn Söder▼
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| office = [[Member of the Riksdag]]
|term_start = 29 September 2014▼
| term_end =
|predecessor = [[Ulf Holm]]▼
| constituency = [[Skåne Northern and Eastern (constituency)|Skåne Northern and Eastern]]
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▲|term_start2 = 4 October 2010
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|predecessor2 = ▼
| successor1 = [[Lotta Johnsson Fornarve]]
|successor2 = [[Mattias Karlsson (politician)|Mattias Karlsson]]▼
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| leader2 = [[Jimmie Åkesson]]
|term_start3 = 7 May 2005▼
|term_end3 = 14 February 2015▼
| term_end2 = 29 September 2014
|predecessor3 = [[David Lång]]▼
▲| predecessor2 = New office
|successor3 = [[Richard Jomshof]] <small>(elect)</small>▼
▲|term_start4 = 4 October 2010
| leader3 = Jimmie Åkesson
▲| term_start3 = 7 May 2005
▲| term_end3 = 14 February 2015
|birth_name=Björn Olof Söder▼
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1976|01|03|df=yes}}▼
▲| birth_name = Björn Olof Söder
|birth_place = [[Väsby, Höganäs Municipality|Väsby]], [[Höganäs Municipality]], [[Skåne County]], [[Sweden]]▼
|death_date = ▼
▲| birth_place
|death_place = ▼
▲| death_date =
▲|party = [[Sweden Democrats]]
▲| death_place =
|alma_mater = [[Lund Institute of Technology]]▼
| party = [[Sweden Democrats]]
| spouse =
| children =
▲| alma_mater = [[Lund Institute of Technology]]
| website = [http://www.bjornsoder.net/ bjornsoder.net]
| awards = [[File:Ribbon bar of Gosh medal.png|20px]] [[Orders, decorations, and medals of Armenia#Mkhitar Gosh Medal|Mkhitar Gosh Medal]]
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'''Björn Olof Söder''' (born 3 January 1976) is a Swedish [[Sweden Democrats]] politician who served as [[Second Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag]] from September 2014 to September 2018. He has been a [[Member of the Riksdag]] (SD) for [[Stockholm County (Riksdag constituency)|Stockholm County]] since October 2010. He previously served as Leader of the [[Sweden Democrats]] in the [[Riksdag]] from 2010 to 2014 and Secretary of the [[Sweden Democrats]] from 2005 to 2015.<ref name=about>{{cite web |url=http://www.bjornsoder.net/bjornsoder.php |
== Background and education ==
Söder was born in
== Political career ==
=== Early political career ===
Söder first joined the Swedish [[Progress Party (Sweden)|Progress Party]] in 1991, but left the party in 1994, after internal struggles and instead joined the [[Sweden Democrats]].<ref name=about/> He was elected as a substitute member of the party board in 1997, but left the board to serve as secretary of the [[Sweden Democrat Youth]] between 1998 and 2000.<ref name=about/> Between 1998 and 2002, he was a member of the [[municipal council]] in [[Höör Municipality]] for the Sweden Democrats.<ref name=about/> In 2001, he was again elected as a member of the party board and later the same year of the party executive committee.<ref name=about/> In the same year he was also elected as a member of the church assembly of the [[Diocese of Lund]] and as a substitute member of the church assembly of the [[Church of Sweden]].<ref name=about/>
[[File:Urban Ahlin, Ewa Thalén Finné, Björn Söder, Esabelle Dingizian.jpg|thumb|left|Official portrait of the Speaker of the Riksdag for [[Urban Ahlin]]. He became the first speaker include the three deputy speakers of his term in his portret. Björn Söder, [[Ewa Thalén Finné]], [[Esabelle Dingizian]]]]
At the Sweden Democrats' national meeting in 2003 Söder was elected as deputy party chairman.<ref name=about/> He left this post at the national meeting in 2005 when he was elected as [[party secretary]].<ref name=about/> In 2005 he was once again elected as a member of the church assembly of the Diocese of Lund and as a full member of the church assembly of the [[Church of Sweden]].<ref name=about/> Between 2006 and 2010 Söder was a member and party group leader of the Sweden Democrats in the [[Scania Regional Council]] as well as a member of the municipal council in [[Helsingborg Municipality]].<ref name=about/>▼
▲At the Sweden Democrats' national meeting in 2003, Söder was elected as deputy party chairman.<ref name=about/> He left this post at the national meeting in 2005, when he was elected as [[party secretary]].<ref name=about/> In 2005, he was once again elected as a member of the church assembly of the Diocese of Lund and as a full member of the church assembly of the [[Church of Sweden]].<ref name=about/> Between 2006 and 2010, Söder was a member and party group leader of the Sweden Democrats in the [[Scania Regional Council]] as well as a member of the municipal council in [[Helsingborg Municipality]].<ref name=about/>
In the [[Swedish general election, 2010|2010 general election]] the Sweden Democrats for the first time entered the [[Riksdag]] with 5.70% of the votes and Söder, placed second on the party's national ballot, was elected as a [[Member of Parliament]] along with 19 other Sweden Democratic politicians.<ref name=parliament>{{cite web |url=http://www.riksdagen.se/webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1021 |title=Invalda valet 2010 |publisher=[[Parliament of Sweden]] |accessdate=22 September 2010 |language=Swedish |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927180133/http://www.riksdagen.se/webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1021 |archivedate=27 September 2010 |df= }}</ref> On 24 September 2010 he was elected as group leader of the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag.<ref>{{cite news |title=Söder SD-gruppledare i riksdagen |first=Mats J. |last=Larsson |newspaper=[[Dagens Nyheter]] |date=24 September 2010 |url=http://www.dn.se/nyheter/valet2010/soder-sd-gruppledare-i-riksdagen-1.1176572 |accessdate=25 September 2010 |language=Swedish |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100926105347/http://www.dn.se/nyheter/valet2010/soder-sd-gruppledare-i-riksdagen-1.1176572 |archivedate=26 September 2010 |df= }}</ref>▼
=== Member of the Riksdag (2010 - present) ===
▲In the [[2010 Swedish general election
On 19 July 2021 Söder was awarded the [[Orders, decorations, and medals of Armenia#Mkhitar Gosh Medal|Mkhitar Gosh Medal]] by president [[Armen Sarksyan]] and presented by the Armenian ambassador to Sweden Alexander Arzoumanian. Björn was awarded the medal for his work on the [[Armenian genocide]] and for working on making the Swedish government recognize the genocide. Also receiving medals were fellow MPs [[Markus Wiechel]] and {{ill|Arin Karapet|sv}} as well as Martin Brozek, the International advisor of the [[Riksdag]] who all received the Medal of Honour of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ստոկհոլմում... |url=https://www.facebook.com/armembsweden/posts/2983451985235131 |website=facebook.com |publisher=Embassy of Armenia in Stockholm |access-date=19 July 2021 |location=[[Stockholm]] |language=hy, sv }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Björn Söder's speech at the reception of the awarding of the Mkhitar Gosh Medal |url=http://www.bjornsoder.net/bjorn-soders-speech-at-the-reception-of-the-awarding-of-the-mkhitar-gosh-medal/#more-3686 |website=bjornsoder.net |date=19 July 2021 |access-date=19 July 2021 |location=[[Stockholm]] |language=en |format=blog |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719201658/http://www.bjornsoder.net/bjorn-soders-speech-at-the-reception-of-the-awarding-of-the-mkhitar-gosh-medal/ |archive-date=2021-07-19 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Björn Söder (SD) och andra svenska riksdagsledamöter får medalj av Armeniens president |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv4yX-1l-ZA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/kv4yX-1l-ZA |archive-date=2021-12-21|website=youtube.com |publisher=Riks |access-date=24 July 2021 |location=[[Stockholm]] |language=sv |format=video |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
== Controversies ==
=== 2012 comments about Eurovision ===
After Sweden's victory in the [[2012 Eurovision Song Contest]], he expressed disappointment and shame that the song was performed in [[English language|English]] and not [[Swedish language|Swedish]]. After a massive backlash, he deleted the comment from his social media pages, and said that he now realizes that the Eurovision song contest "apparently is a [[Sacred cow (idiom)|holy cow]] that must not be criticized in any way, just like [[multiculturalism]]."<ref>[http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/melodifestivalen/article14887552.ab Björn Söder (SD) är besviken att Loreen vann], ''[[Aftonbladet]]'', 27 May 2012</ref>
=== 2014 allegations of antisemitism ===
''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'' reported in 2014 that Björn Söder declared in an interview that most people of Jewish origin, who have become Swedes, leave their Jewish identity and that it is important to distinguish between citizenship and nationhood. Lena Posner Körösi, of the Official Council of Jewish Communities in Sweden told ''[[The Guardian]]'' that Söder’s statements were “exactly like in 1930s Germany” and that they constitute “good old right-wing anti-Semitism". The statement of the Sweden Democrat politician about Jews was listed as one of the ten worst anti-Semitic incidents in the world in 2014 by the [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]], according to ''[[Dagens Nyheter]]''.<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/International/Swedish-politician-calls-for-Jews-to-abandon-their-faith-385124 Swedish politician calls for Jews to abandon their faith], ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', 18 December 2014</ref><ref>[http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article20118462.ab Björn Söder på internationell antisemitlista], ''[[Aftonbladet]]'', 27 May 2012</ref><ref>[http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D/TOP-TEN-2014.PDF Deputy speaker to Jews: abandon your religious identity]</ref>
Söder responded to these claims of anti-Semitism
=== Comments about LGBT people ===
In 2007, Söder was criticised after writing a blog post in which he claimed that the normalisation of LGBT people would lead to the normalisation of "bestiality and pedophilia," saying that "these sexual deviants are not normal and will never be normal."<ref>{{cite web|date=29 September 2014|title=9 saker vi inte ska glömma att Sveriges andre vice talman sagt och gjort|url=https://www.expressen.se/omtalat/nyheter/9-saker-vi-inte-ska-glomma-att-sveriges-andre-vice-talman-sagt-och-gjort/|author-last=Edström|author-first=Dan|access-date=3 August 2023|work=Expressen}}</ref>
In August 2023, Söder faced criticism after tweeting that [[LGBT pride]] had "close - and now legitimate - links to pedophilia and the involvement of children in the sexual world of adults,"<ref>{{cite tweet|user=bjornsoder|title=Jag står upp för att försvara homo- och bisexuellas rättigheter. Men jag kommer aldrig försvara Pride och dess nära - och numera legitima - kopplingar till pedofili och barns involvering i vuxnas sexuella värld.|number=1686806339752730624|date=2 August 2023|access-date=3 August 2023|author=Björn Söder}}</ref> as well as accusing Prime Minister [[Ulf Kristersson]] of "legitimising pedophilia" for raising a pride flag at his [[Sager House|official residence]].<ref>{{cite web|date=3 August 2023|title=Sweden Democrat MP under fire after claiming Pride is linked to pedophilia|url=https://www.thelocal.se/20230803/sweden-democrat-mp-under-fire-after-claiming-pride-is-linked-to-pedophilia|author-last=|author-first=|access-date=3 August 2023|work=The Local Sweden}}</ref> His comments garnered criticism from several government ministers, who depend on the Sweden Democrats for support under the [[Tidö Agreement]]. [[Linda Lindberg]], the Sweden Democrat house leader in the Riksdag, stated that the tone of his comments was "problematic," but that it was understandable that he disliked "an organisation that repeatedly criticises and excludes our party for no reason."<ref>{{cite web|date=3 August 2023|title=Björn Söder anklagar Pride: "Kopplingar till pedofili"|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/KnRLq6/bjorn-soder-sd-om-pride-kopplingar-till-pedofili|author-last=Ögren|author-first=Annica|access-date=3 August 2023|work=Aftonbladet}}</ref>
== Distinctions ==
*[[File:Ribbon bar of Gosh medal.png|60px]] [[Orders, decorations, and medals of Armenia#Mkhitar Gosh Medal|Mkhitar Gosh Medal]], (Armenia).
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