Ola Ullsten

Ola Ullsten

Ola Ullsten (actually Stig Kjell Olof Ullstén , born June 23, 1931 in Umeå ; † May 28, 2018 in Gotland ) was a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1978 to 1979 .

Political career

Ullsten was elected to the Second Chamber of the Swedish Reichstag for the first time in 1965 . He was a member of parliament until 1984.

In the first bourgeois government of Sweden after 40 years of social democratic dominance, Ullsten became Minister for Development Aid in 1976. After Per Ahlmark's resignation in 1978, he became Deputy Prime Minister and took over the chairmanship of the Liberal People's Party . A few months later, Thorbjörn Fälldin's coalition government collapsed due to differences in energy policy.

After negotiations with the Social Democrats under Olof Palme , Ullsten succeeded in October 1978 in becoming Prime Minister of a purely liberal minority government that had only a narrow parliamentary base (39 of 349 seats in the Swedish Reichstag). Initially quite successful, the government increasingly lost its political initiative. The opposition parties came to an agreement on various issues, bypassing the government.

After the 1979 Reichstag election , which did not strengthen Ullsten's party, Ullsten resigned as Prime Minister and instead became Foreign Minister in a new bourgeois coalition under Thorbjörn Fälldin. Ullsten held this office until 1982. The 1982 Reichstag election brought the Liberals a heavy defeat. Ullsten resigned as party chairman in 1983.

He was later the Swedish ambassador to Canada and Italy .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ola Ullsten död . DN.se , May 28, 2018, accessed May 29, 2018 (Swedish).

Web links

Commons : Ola Ullsten  - Collection of images

• Short biography in the National Cyclopedin