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'''Eva Magdalena Andersson'''{{pron}} (born 23 January 1967) is a Swedish [[Swedish Social Democratic Party|Social Democratic]] politician who has been [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] since November 2021, and [[Swedish Social Democratic Party|leader of the Social Democratic Party]] since 2021.<ref name="dutt">{{Cite web|url=https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/magdalena-andersson-elected-as-new-social-democrat-leader|title=Magdalena Andersson elected as new Social Democrat leader|first=Sujay|last=Dutt|date=4 November 2021|accessdate=23 November 2021|publisher=[[Sveriges Radio]]}}</ref>
'''Eva Magdalena Andersson'''{{pron}} (born 23 January 1967) is a Swedish [[Swedish Social Democratic Party|Social Democratic]] politician who has been [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] since November 2021, and [[Swedish Social Democratic Party|leader of the Social Democratic Party]] since 2021.<ref name="dutt">{{Cite web|url=https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/magdalena-andersson-elected-as-new-social-democrat-leader|title=Magdalena Andersson elected as new Social Democrat leader|first=Sujay|last=Dutt|date=4 November 2021|accessdate=23 November 2021|publisher=[[Sveriges Radio]]}}</ref>


On 24 November 2021, the Swedish [[Riksdag]] elected her as Sweden's first female Prime Minister.<ref name="twp1">{{cite web |last1=Associated Press |title=Finance chief Andersson tapped to be Sweden's 1st female PM |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/finance-chief-andersson-tapped-to-be-swedens-1st-female-pm/2021/11/04/926437ca-3d8b-11ec-bd6f-da376f47304e_story.html |website=[[The Washington Post]] |publisher= |access-date=8 November 2021|date=4 November 2021}}</ref><ref name="bbc24">{{cite web |title=Sweden votes in Magdalena Andersson as first female PM |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59400539 |website=|publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=24 November 2021|date=24 November 2021}}</ref>
On 24 November 2021, the Swedish [[Riksdag]] elected her as Sweden's first female Prime Minister, thereby ending Sweden's status as the only [[Nordic country]] never to have had a woman as head of government.<ref name="twp1">{{cite web |last1=Associated Press |title=Finance chief Andersson tapped to be Sweden's 1st female PM |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/finance-chief-andersson-tapped-to-be-swedens-1st-female-pm/2021/11/04/926437ca-3d8b-11ec-bd6f-da376f47304e_story.html |website=[[The Washington Post]] |publisher= |access-date=8 November 2021|date=4 November 2021}}</ref><ref name="bbc24">{{cite web |title=Sweden votes in Magdalena Andersson as first female PM |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59400539 |website=|publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=24 November 2021|date=24 November 2021}}</ref>


== Biography ==
== Biography ==

Revision as of 15:40, 24 November 2021

For the Moderate Party politician, see Magdalena Andersson (Moderate).
Magdalena Andersson
Andersson in 2021
Prime Minister of Sweden
Elect
Assuming office
26 November 2021
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
SucceedingStefan Löfven
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 November 2021
Secretary GeneralTobias Baudin
Preceded byStefan Löfven
Minister for Finance
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 October 2014
Prime MinisterStefan Löfven
Preceded byAnders Borg
Member of the Riksdag
Incumbent
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
Richard Friberg
​
(m. 1997)​
Children2
EducationStockholm School of Economics

Eva Magdalena Andersson[pronunciation?] (born 23 January 1967) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician who has been Prime Minister of Sweden since November 2021, and leader of the Social Democratic Party since 2021.[1]

On 24 November 2021, the Swedish Riksdag elected her as Sweden's first female Prime Minister, thereby ending Sweden's status as the only Nordic country never to have had a woman as head of government.[2][3]

Biography

Early life

Andersson is the only child of Göran Andersson (1936–2002), a lecturer of statistics at Uppsala University, and teacher Birgitta Andersson (née Grunell) (born 1939).[4]

Andersson was an elite level swimmer in her youth.[5][6]

Education

During her high school years, Andersson studied social sciences at the Cathedral School in Uppsala. She graduated in 1987 with top grades in all but one class.[7]

After graduating from high school, she moved to Stockholm to study at the Stockholm School of Economics,[8] where she graduated in 1992 with a master's degree in economics. She then worked as a doctoral student in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics in the years 1992–1995 but ended her studies in advance. In the autumn of 1994, she studied at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna. In the spring of 1995, she studied at Harvard University.[9]

Magdalena Andersson joined Social Democratic Youth League (SSU) in 1983, during her first year of secondary school.[10] In 1987, she was elected president of the Uppsala section of SSU.[11]

Career

Adviser and civil servant

After completing her studies in economics, Andersson gained employment in the Prime Minister's Office as a political adviser to Göran Persson from 1996 to 1998, and later served as Director of Planning from 1998 to 2004. She then spent time in the civil service, working as Secretary of state in the Ministry of Finance from 2004 to 2006, before leaving to again become a political adviser, this time to Opposition Leader Mona Sahlin, from 2007 to 2009. She left this role when the Government nominated her for the role of Chief Director of the Swedish Tax Agency, a position she held until 2012. She resigned upon her adoption as a Social Democratic candidate ahead of the 2014 general election.[12]

Minister for Finance

Andersson with her first government budget (known as nådiga luntan) outside the Parliament on 23 October 2014

After the Social Democratic victory in the 2014 Swedish general election in which Andersson was elected as a member of the Riksdag, she was appointed as the Minister for Finance by new prime minister Stefan Löfven in his cabinet.[13] As a result of coalition negotiations, while Andersson had overall responsibility for the Finance Ministry, Per Bolund was given responsibility for the oversight of financial markets and consumer protection as the Minister for Financial Markets.[14] Andersson was reappointed as Finance Minister by Löfven following the 2018 election.[15]

In 2020, members of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the primary policy advisory committee of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), chose Andersson to serve as Chair of the Committee for a term of three years.[16] She became the first European in that role after more than a decade, as well as the first woman to hold that position.[17]

In August 2021, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven announced he would resign as party leader at the Social Democratic Party Congress in November 2021.[18] Andersson was quickly regarded by many as the most likely candidate to succeed him, and on 29 September, the Social Democratic Party nominating committee announced that Andersson had been chosen as leader-designate ahead of the congress; should the designation be accepted by the Riksdag, Andersson would become leader and Sweden's first female Prime Minister.[19][20]

Leader of the Social Democratic Party

Andersson was elected Leader of the Social Democratic Party on 4 November 2021,[21] becoming the party's second female leader after Mona Sahlin.[22]

On 10 November, Prime Minister Löfven formally resigned from office.[23] As part of the government formation process, the Speaker of the Riksdag held talks with all party leaders on 11 November and shortly after tasked Andersson with forming a government, giving her one week.[24] On 23 November 2021, it was announced that Andersson has reached an agreement with the Left Party to support her at the upcoming prime ministerial vote. With the Centre Party having previously agreed to support her, Andersson had the required number of MPs to become Sweden's next prime minister.[25]

Prime Minister of Sweden (2021–present)

On 24 November 2021, Andersson was elected as Sweden's new prime minister by the Riksdag;[3] she will assume office formally on 26 November 2021.[26] Although she did not receive a majority of "yes" votes, she also did not receive a majority of "no" votes, which under the Riksdag's principle of negative parliamentarism was sufficient to elect her as prime minister.[3] Andersson is Sweden's first female head of government since universal suffrage was introduced in 1921.[27]

Other roles

Personal life

Andersson is married to Richard Friberg, a professor in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, since 1997 with whom she has two children.[35] She and her husband are avid outdoors people; they often go hiking, kayaking and mountaineering.[36]

References

  1. ^ Dutt, Sujay (4 November 2021). "Magdalena Andersson elected as new Social Democrat leader". Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  2. ^ Associated Press (4 November 2021). "Finance chief Andersson tapped to be Sweden's 1st female PM". The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Sweden votes in Magdalena Andersson as first female PM". BBC News. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  4. ^ Lagercrantz, Hemmets Journal | Victoria. "Magdalena Andersson om sorgen efter pappa Göran". Hemmets Journal. Retrieved 1 November 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Jag tycker om att prestera!" [I like to perform] (in Swedish). Civilekonomen. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  6. ^ "The "most stingy finance minister in the EU" may become Sweden's first female prime minister" (in Swedish). Yle. 24 August 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Hon vill vara bäst i klassen – och älskar doften av strid" [She wants to be at the top of the class – and loves the smell of battle] (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  8. ^ "Låt inte kön avgöra valet" [Do not let gender determine the choice of Prime Minister] (in Swedish). Smålandsposten. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Ett komplement till en god välfärdsstad" [A complement to a good welfare state] (in Swedish). Expressen. 15 December 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
  10. ^ "Magdalena Andersson tackar ja: Väldigt hedrad" [Magdalena Andersson says yes: Deeply honored]. Västerbottens-Kuriren. 29 September 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  11. ^ Nyheter, S. V. T.; Carlbaum, Julia (10 September 2021). "Länets socialdemokrater vill ha Magdalena Andersson som ny ledare". Retrieved 1 November 2021 – via SVT Nyheter.
  12. ^ "Magdalena Andersson: Jag har rökt marijuana". Expressen. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  13. ^ Orange, Richard (28 August 2021). "Sweden lines up Magdalena Andersson to be its first woman prime minister". The Telegraph. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  14. ^ Cynthia Kroet (6 October 2014), Löfven unveils Swedish government European Voice. Retrieved 1 November 2021
  15. ^ "SSE alum and Minister for Finance Magdalena Andersson visited SSE". hhs.se. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  16. ^ IMFC Selects Sweden’s Minister for Finance Magdalena Andersson as New Chair International Monetary Fund (IMF), press release of 17 December 2020.
  17. ^ David Lawder (17 December 2020), IMF steering committee names Swedish finance minister as next chair Reuters. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  18. ^ Sweden’s Finance Chief Nominated to Become First Female PM Bloomberg. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  19. ^ "Valberedningen föreslår Magdalena Andersson" (in Swedish). SVT. 29 September 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  20. ^ Richard Milne (29 September 2021), Finance minister on course to become Sweden’s first female PM Financial Times Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  21. ^ "Magdalena Andersson set to become Sweden's first female Prime Minister". euronews. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  22. ^ Dahlström, Lucas (24 August 2021). "Den "snålaste finansministern i EU" kan bli Sveriges första kvinnliga statsminister" ["EU's most stingy Minister for Finance" can become Sweden's first female Prime Minister]. www.svenska.yle.fi. Yle. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  23. ^ "Swedish PM resigns, finance minister likely successor". 10 November 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Reuters.
  24. ^ "Swedish Fin Min Andersson handed task of forming new government". Reuters. 9 November 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  25. ^ "Regeringen och Vänsterpartiet överens – V släpper fram Andersson som statsminister" [Government and Left Party agree – Left Party will allow Andersson as Prime Minister] (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 23 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  26. ^ Tanaka, Sofia (22 November 2021). "S-ledaren hos talmannen – har hon stöd för en regering?" [S-leader with the Speaker of the Riksdag – does she have enough support to form a government?]. Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  27. ^ "Klart: Magdalena Andersson blir ny statsminister" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  28. ^ Board of Governors Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Retrieved 1 November 2021
  29. ^ Board of Governors European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). 1 November 2021
  30. ^ Board of Governors: Magdalena Andersson European Investment Bank (EIB). 1 November 2021
  31. ^ Board of Governors Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group. 1 November 2021
  32. ^ Board of Governors Archived 29 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine Nordic Investment Bank (NIB). 1 November 2021
  33. ^ Board of Governors World Bank. 1 November 2021
  34. ^ "Curriculum Vitae Minister for Finance Magdalena Andersson" (PDF). www.government.se. Government of Sweden. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  35. ^ "Magdalena Andersson about the grief after father Göran Andersson" (in Swedish). Hemmets Journal. 15 July 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  36. ^ "Magdalena Andersson: Hidden privacy with her husband and children". california18.com. 18 September 2021. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
Political offices
Preceded by Minister for Finance
2014–present 		Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by Leader of the Social Democratic Party
2021–present 		Incumbent
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