Magdalena Andersson

Magdalena Andersson
Andersson in 2022
Leader of the Opposition
Assumed office
18 October 2022
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
Prime MinisterUlf Kristersson
Preceded byUlf Kristersson
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
Assumed office
4 November 2021
Secretary GeneralTobias Baudin
Preceded byStefan Löfven
Prime Minister of Sweden
In office
30 November 2021 – 18 October 2022
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
DeputyMorgan Johansson
Preceded byStefan Löfven
Succeeded byUlf Kristersson
Minister for Finance
In office
3 October 2014 – 30 November 2021
Prime MinisterStefan Löfven
Preceded byAnders Borg
Succeeded byMikael Damberg
Chair of the International Monetary and Financial Committee
In office
17 December 2020 – 3 January 2022
Managing DirectorKristalina Georgieva
Preceded byLesetja Kganyago
Succeeded byNadia Calviño
Member of the Riksdag
Assumed office
29 September 2014
ConstituencyStockholm County
Personal details
Born
Eva Magdalena Andersson

(1967-01-23) 23 January 1967 (age 57)
Uppsala, Sweden
Political partySocial Democrats
Spouse
(m. 1997)
Children2
EducationStockholm School of Economics

Eva Magdalena Andersson (born 23 January 1967)[1] is a Swedish politician and economist who has served as Leader of the Opposition since October 2022 and Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party since 2021. She has served as a Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014.[2] She previously served as Prime Minister of Sweden from November 2021 to October 2022, Minister for Finance from 2014 to 2021 and Chair of the International Monetary and Financial Committee from 2020 to 2022.

Andersson joined the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League in 1983. In 1992, she earned a master's degree in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. She has served as an adviser and director of planning in Göran Persson's administration and as an adviser to Mona Sahlin. After the 2014 Swedish general election, Andersson was elected to the Riksdag and became Minister for Finance in Stefan Löfven's administration. When Löfven announced his plans to step down in August 2021, she was regarded as the main candidate to succeed him. Soon after that, she was elected leader of the Social Democrats.

Andersson was elected Prime Minister of Sweden by the Riksdag on 29 November 2021.[3] On 24 November 2021, Andersson had been elected to that position but resigned after an announcement by her coalition partner, the Green Party, that they were leaving the government in response to losing the annual budget vote in the Riksdag to the conservative opposition. Andersson then assumed the office of Prime Minister on 30 November 2021 as Sweden's first female prime minister.[4]

After her coalition lost its majority in the 2022 Swedish general election, Andersson announced her intention to resign as prime minister.[5] She was succeeded by Ulf Kristersson on 18 October the same year.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ Sveriges befolkning 1990, CD-ROM, Version 1.00, Riksarkivet (2011).
  2. ^ "Sweden's lawmakers elect the country's first female prime minister—again". CNN. 29 November 2021. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Sweden elects Andersson as first female PM for the second time in a week". France 24. 29 November 2021. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Magdalena Andersson är Sveriges första kvinnliga statsminister". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 24 November 2021. Archived from the original on 2 August 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Swedish PM resigns as right-wing parties win vote". BBC News. 14 September 2022. Archived from the original on 14 September 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  6. ^ Dante Thomsen (17 October 2022). "Ulf Kristersson framröstad som tillträdande statsminister" (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  7. ^ Albin Lindström (18 October 2022). "Här är Sveriges nya ministrar" (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  8. ^ Manfred Nyberg (18 October 2022). "Oppositionen kritiserar Kristerssons nya regering" (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. Retrieved 29 October 2022.

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