Muharrem Demirok was born in 1976 in Huddinge. He has worked as a municipal councilor in Linköping for the past 14 years and was elected to the Riksdag in 2022. When Demirok is in the kitchen, Swedish home cooking is on the menu, and former party leader Maud Olofsson is the biggest central political inspiration.
But what became the biggest talking point after Demirok was presented as one of the candidates for the party leader position was that he was convicted of assault on two occasions.
– I hope people will be able to judge me based on who I am today and not mistakes I made in the 90s, says Demirok.