Muharrem Demirok | |
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![]() Muharrem Demirok at the Almedalen Week in 2023 | |
Leader of the Centre Party | |
In office 2 February 2023 –3 May 2025 | |
Preceded by | Annie Lööf |
Succeeded by | Anna-Karin Hatt |
Member of the Riksdag | |
Assumed office 27 September 2022 | |
Constituency | Östergötland County |
Personal details | |
Born | Huddinge,Sweden | 3 October 1976
Political party | Centre |
Children | 3 |
Muharrem Daniel Demirok (born 3 October 1976) is a Swedish politician who served as leader of the Centre Party from 2023 to 2025. Additionally,Demirok has been a member of parliament since September 2022. [1]
Demirok was born on 3 October 1976 in Huddinge,Stockholm County,Sweden to a Swedish mother and Turkish father. [2] [3] [4]
He is a member of the Centre Party. [2] From 2009 to 2022,he served as a municipal council in the municipality of Linköping. [5] Following the 2022 Swedish general election,he became a member of parliament. [3] On 11 January 2023,during the 2023 Centre Party leadership election,he was endorsed by the party's election committee as the candidate to succeed Annie Lööf,the incumbent leader of Centre Party. [2] [6] He was appointed party leader on 2 February,during a party meeting in Helsingborg. [7] On February 24,2025,Muharrem Demirok announced his resignation from his position as party leader and will remain in office until a successor is appointed. [8] On 3 May 2025,Anna-Karin Hatt officially was elected new party leader. [9]
Demirok has been convicted for two counts of assault,for which he received fines and did community service. The first assault took place in 1995 with another student during his high school studies. The second assault happened in 1999,when he ended up in an altercation with another student at a university party in Linköping. [10] [11] He is in a cohabitating partnership and has three children. [4]