After years away from politics, Fredrick Federley (C) has been nominated as a candidate in municipal and regional elections in Dalarna. Members chose to promote him, he says gratefully. He is selectable in Gagnef and the Dalarna regional election.
Fredrick Federley, former MP and EU parliamentarian for the Center Party, is returning to politics ahead of the 2026 election. He is now a selectable candidate in the Gagnef municipal election and the Dalarna regional election, after members promoted him in the nomination process.
"Members have chosen to lift me forward and I am incredibly grateful for that," Federley says.
His career was marked by turmoil at the end of 2020, when it emerged he had a relationship with a convicted pedophile. Federley then left all positions. In a 2023 interview, he stated he knew of the person's prison sentence but not the reason, stressing that elected officials should be able to date convicted individuals and that everyone deserves a second chance.
In 2025, he took his first step back by being elected to the Center Party's Dalarna district board and running in the church election.
Ulrica Momqvist, chair of the Center Party's Dalarna district board, expresses confidence in the nomination committee's work. "Generally, I am very satisfied with the candidates on our lists for the autumn election," she writes in an email.
Federley remains humble ahead of the campaign and acknowledges risks related to his past. Asked if political enemies might bring it up again, he replies: "We can clearly see what is organized by political enemies and we cannot act on that. If we let external forces control internal affairs, the party members no longer have control."
He adds: "Now the die is cast."
