Cecilia Stegö Chilò

Marie Cecilia Stegö Chilò (born March 25, 1959 in Linköping ) is a Swedish journalist and politician . She belongs to the Moderata samlingspartiet and was Swedish Minister of Culture from October 6 to 16, 2006 after the Reinfeldt government took office . She is married and has two sons.

From 1978 to 1984 Cecilia Stegö Chilò studied political science , economics , law and languages. In 1982 she became General Secretary of the European Democrat Students . In the same year she started working as a journalist for a newspaper in Norrköping . In 1984 she changed her job to the provincial parliament of Stockholm County before she became the press spokeswoman for the parliamentary group of her party a year later . In 1987 she became a speechwriter for the party leadership and since 1989 she has worked as an editorial writer and foreign correspondent for Svenska Dagbladet (including in Germany). In 1995 she left her party to protest against the exclusion of EU critic Björn von der Esch from the party . In 2001 she became a domestic policy commentator on Swedish radio . Since 2005 she has been chairwoman of the Fritt Näringsliv Foundation ( Free Economy ) and the Timbro think tank before she was appointed Minister of Culture after the 2006 Reichstag election .

criticism

Shortly after her appointment as Minister of Culture, Cecilia Stegö Chilò was heavily criticized. On the one hand, it became known that she had hired domestic helpers in black; on the other, it emerged that she had illegally not paid any fees for Swedish television since 1990 , but that responsibility for this television falls within the remit of her ministry. After extensive criticism in the media of her behavior and an advertisement by Radiotjänst , the Swedish equivalent of the GEZ , she wished to be able to resign from her post as Minister of Culture on October 16, 2006. Prime Minister Reinfeldt complied with her request; Education Minister Lars Leijonborg took over her duties on a provisional basis .

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