{{Short description|Swedish politician (born 1981)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Niklas Wykman 1.jpg | name = Niklas Wykman | caption = Wykman in 2025 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|03|10|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Kalmar]], Sweden | death_date = | death_place = | office = [[Minister for Financial Markets (Sweden)|Minister for Financial Markets]] | prime_minister = [[Ulf Kristersson]] | term_start = 18 October 2022 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Max Elger]] | successor = | office2 = [[Member of the Riksdag]] | term_start2 = 29 September 2014 | term_end2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | constituency2 = [[Stockholm County (Riksdag constituency)|Stockholm County]] | occupation = | majority = | relations = | spouse = | alma_mater = [[Stockholm University]] | children = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Niklas Åke Wykman''' (born 10 March 1981) is a Swedish politician of the [[Moderate Party]]. He has served as [[Minister for Financial Markets (Sweden)|Minister for Financial Markets]] in the [[Kristersson Cabinet|cabinet of Ulf Kristersson]] since October 2022<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.government.se/press-releases/2022/10/swedens-new-government/ |title=Sweden's New Government |date=18 October 2022 |publisher=[[Government of Sweden]] |access-date=1 November 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018155229/https://government.se/press-releases/2022/10/swedens-new-government/ |archive-date=18 October 2022}}</ref> and has been [[Member of the Riksdag]] since the [[2014 Swedish general election|2014 general election]], representing [[Stockholm County (Riksdag constituency)|Stockholm County]]. He was chairman of the [[Moderate Youth League]], the youth wing of the [[Moderate Party]], from 2006 to 2010.

== Career == Wykman joined the Moderate Youth League in 1997 and was also chairman of the Moderate School Youth ({{lang|sv|Moderat skolungdom}}) from 2000 to 2001. He was elected new chairman of the Moderate Youth League at its congress in [[Sollentuna Municipality|Sollentuna]] on 25 November 2006, winning over the election committee's candidate [[Mattias Thorsson]] with the votes 63–49.

Until being elected chairman of the Moderate Youth League, Wykman was a student of [[mathematical statistics]] at [[Stockholm University]] and worked as a team leader at a [[call centre]]. During the 2003 referendum on Sweden adopting the Euro as their currency Wykman worked for the center-right No-campaign [[Medborgare mot EMU]].

==Controversial statements== After [[2010 Gaza flotilla raid|the boarding]] of the [[Free Gaza Movement]]'s "[[2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla|Freedom Flotilla]]" by Israeli troops in June 2010, Niklas Wykman declared on his Facebook webpage that ''"I feel eased now when Hamas does not receive the visits they had expected. It is a victory for the whole of [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]]! ''[The Swedish]'' Ship to Gaza are useful idiots, terrorists, and ideologically driven aiming to genocide Israel"''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.expressen.se/Nyheter/1.2006962/muf-ledaren-nojd-att-ship-to-gaza-misslyckats |title=Muf-ledaren nöjd att Ship to Gaza misslyckats - Nyheter - Senaste nytt &#124; | work=Expressen |access-date=21 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701201603/http://www.expressen.se/Nyheter/1.2006962/muf-ledaren-nojd-att-ship-to-gaza-misslyckats |archive-date=1 July 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://svt.se/2.128339/1.2022484/muf-ordforanden_en_seger_for_hela_gaza?lid%3Dpuff_2022484%26lpos%3Drubrik |title=MUF-ordföranden: "En seger för hela Gaza" - Valet 2010 | publisher=SVT.se |accessdate=21 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805113627/http://svt.se/2.128339/1.2022484/muf-ordforanden_en_seger_for_hela_gaza?lid=puff_2022484&lpos=rubrik |archivedate=5 August 2010 }}</ref> The statements received strong criticism from representatives from most political parties, including Swedish prime minister [[Fredrik Reinfeldt]], who recognized the humanitarian aspects of the solidarity movement.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nyheter24.se/maktkamp24/408299-reinfeldt-kritisk-mot-muf-ordforande|title = Reinfeldt kritisk mot MUF-ordförande|date = 4 June 2010}}</ref>

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{{Moderate MP 2014–2018}} {{Members of the Riksdag, 2022–2026}}

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