Tomas Tobé


Tomas Gunnar Tobé is a Swedish politician and who served as party secretary of the Moderate Party from 10 January 2015 to 2 June 2017. He was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden.

Political career

Career in national politics

Tobé was elected to the Swedish Riksdag in the 2006 general election. During his parliament, he served as chair of its Committee on Employment from 2010 to 2012; the Committee on Education from 2012 to 2014; and the Committee on Legal Affairs from 2018 to 2019. He was mentioned as possible successor for the party leadership after Fredrik Reinfeldt, but declined and supported Anna Kinberg Batra.
In March 2017 there was controversy around Tobé after it was revealed that he had used public funds for wine purchases and personal trips. On 2 June 2017, he was removed from his position as party secretary by party leader Anna Kinberg Batra and appointed Shadow Minister for Justice and Chairman of the Parliament's Committee on Justice.

Member of the European Parliament

Since the 2019 European Parliament election, Tobé has been serving as chairman of the Committee on Development. In this capacity, he co-chairs the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group, which oversees the Parliament’s election observation missions.
Tobé is also a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the Parliament’s delegations for relations to Israel and to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. He also belongs to the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.

Personal life

Tobé is married to Markus Tobé with whom he has twins born via surrogacy.