Ann Linde (S), Peter Eriksson (MP) Isabella Lövin (MP), Stefan Löfven (S), Carolina Forest (MP) and Ibrahim Baylan (S) of Prime Minister Stephen Löfvens press conference on the government reshuffle. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer, TT
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven appoints three new ministers and rearranging among the old. New in the government’s former spokesperson Peter Eriksson (MP), the mayor of Malmo Carolina Forest (MP) and State Secretary Ann Linde (S).
When the two ecologist Kingdom ministers Mehmet Kaplan and Åsa Romson left the government Stefan Löfven got an opportunity to change their roster. Besides filling the two empty seats, it was a newly created EU ministerial post, new responsibilities among the ministers, and so did the future Minister Kristina Persson (S) to leave the government.
No upheaval
– I have not seen the need for a major upheaval for when I have gone through the ministry of ministry and minister for minister, I see that we are delivering what we have set ourselves, but I want an even sharper focus on jobs and housing and that we break segregation, said Stefan Löfven.
Cooperation Isabella Lövin, newly elected MP’s mouthpiece, will take over the disputed title of Deputy Prime Minister of Asa Romson and also have responsibility for climate change. Environmental issues are, however, Carolina Forest care, Mayor of Malmö, who for ten years worked with the Social Democrats at the local level.
– I look forward to increasing the pace in achieving Sweden’s 16 environmental objectives. I come to a set table, she says.
Referred Lövin
The former spokesman and MEP Peter Eriksson was the one who enlisted Isabella Lövin to the Green Party and the European Parliament. Now it is she who lifts him into the government from Brussels.
– He has shown he can deliver results at the local level, at the national level and now in EU Parliament. He has extensive experience and good is good in government work, says Lövin.
While Peter Eriksson believes that the experience will be an asset as he is given responsibility for housing policy and the vexed talks with the opposition.
– As spokesperson, I worked a lot to get broad solutions and settlements across block boundaries, says Eriksson.
rearranging
Stefan Löfvens desire to focus on jobs and segregation is reflected in the responsibilities moved about among ministers.
Enterprise and Mikael Damberg (S) lose trade issues and should instead concentrate more on creating jobs. Energy Minister Ibrahim Baylan (S) is also coordinating minister, with a special eye on development in poor and vulnerable areas, and Ann Linde (S), State Secretary of the Interior Minister Anders Ygeman, will be the new EU minister responsible for trade matters.
The Facts: The new ministers
Carolina Forest (MP), 40, is a councilor in Malmö and Chairman of city Planning. She is also a deputy in the National Laboratory’s Board of Directors and Vice Chairman of the tram towns. Forest has a Masters degree in Human Ecology, Lund University, and co-founded Green students.
Peter Eriksson (MP), 57, was the spokesperson for the Green Party from 2002 to 2011 together with Maria Wetterstrand, and Member of Parliament 1994- 1998 and 2002 to 2014. Eriksson was elected Chairman of the Constitutional Committee after the election in 2010. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2014.
Ann Linde (S), 55, has since 2014 been the Secretary of the Interior Minister Anders Ygeman (S). Before that, she was head of the Socialist International Department, International Secretary of the Social Democratic Party, and head of the party’s international staff.
The Facts: Government
Since Stefan Löfven appointed three new ministers, the Government out here in full:
- Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S)
- Deputy Prime Minister and climate and Cooperation Isabella Lövin (MP)
- Minister Margot Wallström (S)
- Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson (S)
- coordination and Energy Minister Ibrahim Baylan (S)
- Culture and democracy Minister Alice Bah Kuhnke (MP )
- Financial and consumer Minister, Deputy Finance Minister Per Bolund (MP)
- The Minister for Rural Affairs Sven-Erik Bucht (S)
- Economic Development and innovation Minister Mikael Damberg (S )
- education Gustav Fridolin (MP)
- high school and education initiative Minister AIDA HADZIALIC (S)
- the Minister for higher education and research Helene Hellmark Knutsson (S)
- Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist (S)
- Infrastructure Minister Anna Johansson (S)
- The Minister for Justice and Minister for Migration and Morgan Johansson (S)
- Labour Minister Ylva Johansson (S)
- Children, the elderly and Gender Åsa Regnér (S)
- Civil Minister Ardalan Shekarabi (S)
- Social Security Minister Annika Strandhäll (S)
- Public Health, medical and Sports Minister Gabriel Wikström (S)
- Minister Anders Ygeman (S)
- The EU and Trade Minister Ann Linde (S)
- Housing and digitization Minister Peter Eriksson (MP)
- Environment Carolina Forest (MP)
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