Alice Bah Kuhnke was a big surprise – Swedish Radio

Alice Bah Kuhnke was a big surprise – Swedish Radio

Today, we learned that Alice Bah Kuhnke became one of the ministers in the new government. She became Minister of Culture. Many were surprised that she would just have to be in the government. Earlier, she is best known as a presenter on television. She has never had a political mission. She joined the Green Party 3 days ago.

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– I’ve had a very close relationship with the party over the last 10 years. We have discussed my membership and role of the party for many years.

Alice Bah Kuhnke has had jobs as a manager
Alice Bah Kuhnke has previously been a presenter on television, including the children’s program Disney Club.

She has also been Director of the Fairtrade organization, which helps poor farmers in other countries to get paid more for the food they sell. Additionally, she has been head of an agency that helps young people.

She becomes Minister of Culture
In the new government to Alice Bah Kuhnke have responsibility for both culture and democracy.

She says culture and democracy are interrelated, for example, books, theater, and music can teach us to think freely and differently and to say what we think:
– Culture can get us to provoke and challenge the norms. Culture also has a central role in questioning power, especially political power. So it is free speech which supports democracy. The link between culture and democracy are important, says Alice Bah Kuhnke.

There will most socialists in the government
It is the new Prime Minister Stefan Löfven as has selected which politicians may become ministers in his government. He has selected 18 people from his own party, the Social Democrats and six politicians from the Green Party.

This is the first time that the Green Party will be entered into a government.

Among other things, becoming ecologists stone Asa Romson Environment and she is also Deputy Prime Minister.
So she may then take over as prime minister when Stefan Löfven can not work.

ecologists Stone Gustav Fridolin becomes Minister of Education
Gustav Fridolin himself has worked as a teacher for a short time.

Now Gustav Fridolin then Education Minister and senior leader of the government’s education ministry. To help, he also two social democratic ministers under him. Gustav Fridolin says it is vikltigt to work with other parties
both within government and in parliament:
– We will cooperate. I am glad that we are several cabinet ministers in the Ministry of Education. We have a good distribution of ministerial jobs between parties to work together on the important challenges.

Yes, ecologists stone Gustav Fridolin therefore believe that it is good with several ministers.

A large government
In this new government, it will actually be an unusually large number of ministers. In all, the 24 pieces.
Yet only four of them have been ministers before.

Half of the ministers are men and half are women. Several of the ministers were born overseas or have parents who are immigrants.

Social democrats have important jobs
One of the most important jobs of a government is to be Finance. For then you have responsibilities include state money and that the entire country’s economy works well. That job goes to the Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson. To his help, she ecologists stone Per Bo.

Another important job is to be foreign minister. It goes to the Social Democrat Margot Wallström.
She is very accustomed to seeing politicians from other countries, she has held key jobs in both the EU and the UN.