Mikael Jansson

Lars-Olof Mikael Jansson (born 4 September 1965, Umeå, Västerbotten) is a former leader of the Swedish political party Sweden Democrats (Swedish: Sverigedemokraterna). He served as party leader between 1995 and 2005. He was replaced by Jimmie Åkesson. Jansson is a member of parliament (Riksdag) since 2010. As a member a parliament, Jansson was appointed Defence spokesman of the party and has sat on the Defence committee since 2010.

Mikael Jansson grew up in the mining district town of Kopparberg. At aged 17 while studying he started to work at a papermill in Örebro. He is a technical college graduate with a focus on electronics and telephony. After graduation he performed his military service 1984-1985 as an artillery observer at 4th Artillery regiment based Jämtland. After he completed training he obtained the rank of Sergeant. The following year he joined the newly formed Swedish Auxiliary Police, performing his training at 13th Infantry regiment and serving part-time until 1998.

In 1990, Jansson joined the Centre Party and was for a time the second vice-president in Örebro municipality's organization and sat as substitute member for the Center Party in Vasa municipality's board in Örebro. In 1993 he switched to Sweden Democrats party, where in 1994 he was elected second vice president, and in 1995 the new party chairman at the National Annual Meeting in Norrköping. He served as chairman for 10 years. In May 2005 Jimmie Åkesson took over the role as chairman. The same year, he released the book "Own trail through unbroken terrain" about his time as party leader.

He served as head of the local party district Gothenborg from 1995-2014 and in the 2006 elections he was elected to have a seat at the City Council in Gothenburg and also set up as a third candidate to the European Parliament in 2009 on the party's behalf.

Mikael Jansson was the Sweden Democrats' candidate for the post of Second Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag in 2010, but was not selected. Since 2010, he has been a member of parliament, a member of the defence committee, and a spokesperson for the party. During the years 2012-2014, Jansson sat in the defence commission, that treat the defence alignment for the period 2016-2020.

Mikael Jansson is also one of twelve members and of the Swedish Export Control Council (ECC), a parliamentary appointed group that advise the Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP) on how to deal with war material export issues. The Sweden Democrats party have one seat in total in the council.

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