She becomes Mona Sahlin’s successor – Expressen

Earlier alliance Minister Hillevi Engström is Mona Sahlin’s successor.

At a press conference at 12 featured culture and democracy minister Alice Bah Kuhnke government’s new national authorizing coordinator against violent extremism.

– My task is to prevent is to prevent so that fewer are drawn to these extreme organizations that have violence as a method, she says.

TV4 has previously published data to Hillevi Engstrom, former Minister for Development Cooperation of the Reinfeldt government would be considered for the post.

And in connection with Alice Bah Kuhnkes press conference at regeringshögvartetet Rosenbad confirmed the information.

She working for the past years as a city manager in Upplands Vasby and dismissed on Wednesday the information as a rumor.

– a key is that every section of society to take responsibility, says Alice Bah Kuhnke.

Hillevi Engström says she met Mona Sahlin, but received a handover of the acting coordinator.

– we have a robust society but we need to do more, says Engström.

she wants not prioritize or rank the kind of extremism that are most important to fix but says:

– I do not say that something is more important. As people become victims of violence, it is terrible for everyone. It may be for those who take the subway on becoming endangered because he or she is gay, or the refugee who lives in a place that catches fire or the youth who go off to kill innocents in Syria, she said.

Mona Sahlin criticized local governments for not having done enough but Engstrom does not want to fall into the same criticism.

– I do not agree with the criticism. Many people have done a lot, many do things and have come a long way. The other we have to work with. I know how tough it is in the municipalities and how many missions you have, she says.

Engstrom has a past as a moderate politician, but regard themselves now as an official and hope for broad cooperation between different parties on the issue.

How much do you know about violent extremism?

– I have a good, solid background from the entire community. I know the authority structure well and have worked politically both in Parliament, the Government and local. Then we have access to the top experts in research.

The government extends the Coordinator’s mandate until January 2018. On June 29, presents the new coordinator continued cooperation strategy.

Meanwhile, Alice Bah Kuhnke that the new directive will strengthen the coordinator’s work. Local government responsibilities regarding radicalization and recruitment to violent groups should be clarified.

The Swedish Defence Research Agency, has been commissioned to survey and analyze the violent extremist propaganda spread online, says Bah Kuhnke.

Mona Sahlin resigned from his duties as national coordinator against violent extremism after the Expressen revealed that she wrote false certificates to his former bodyguard.

after the revelations and Sahlin’s resignation have an investigation started on the false certificates as she written.

Anders Jakobsson, chief prosecutor at the Special Public prosecution Office, is conducting an investigation in order to examine whether Mona Sahlin, the former bodyguard may have been guilty of crimes – misrepresentation and abuse of false evidence.

No person has served a suspected crime.