Stefan Löfven

Stefan Löfven (2021)

Kjell Stefan Löfven ([ ˈsteːfan lœˈveːn ]; born July 21, 1957 in Hägersten , Stockholm ) is a Swedish politician and since 2012 chairman of the Swedish Social Democratic Labor Party (SAP). He has been Prime Minister of Sweden since October 3, 2014 .

Career

Löfven joined a working-class family ten months after his birth as a foster child . He completed nine-year elementary school (compulsory school) and then a two-year high school in economics. Then he began training as a welder. For three semesters he attended the social college in Umeå ; but left the apprenticeship without a degree.

Löfven led IF Metall, one of the largest trade unions in Sweden, from 2006 to 2012. He also belonged to the leadership of the Labor Party without having previously completed a party career.

On January 27, 2012, he was elected party chairman by the Bureau; a party congress confirmed the election on April 4, 2013. As party leader of the Social Democrats, he led the opposition in the Reichstag .

In the Reichstag election on September 14, 2014 , he ran as the top candidate of the red-green parties. At that time he had no experience as a minister or on the international stage.

Activity as Prime Minister

On October 2, 2014, he won a vote of confidence in the Reichstag and succeeded Fredrik Reinfeldt as Prime Minister on the following day . Although the red-green Löfven I government did not have a majority of the seats, the election was possible because the bourgeois opposition and the socialist Left Party abstained. After the government's draft budget failed on December 3, 2014 because the opposition parties won more votes than the government against this draft, Löfven announced a new election on March 22, 2015. At a press conference on December 27, 2014, Löfven announced that a “December agreement” between the red-green minority government and the four opposition parties of the Civic Alliance had agreed that they would not reject the government's proposal in the next vote on the 2015 budget . The new elections that had already been announced, but officially not to be called until December 29, 2014, three months after the first session of the newly elected Reichstag, therefore did not take place. However, the four parties of the Civil Alliance renounced the December agreement on October 9, 2015 after the Christian Democrats had passed a corresponding resolution at their party congress.

On September 25, 2018, Löfven de facto lost his office due to a vote of no confidence by the Swedish Reichstag , which had been newly elected two weeks earlier, and carried on state affairs on a provisional basis until a new Prime Minister was appointed. After an attempt to be re-elected Prime Minister on December 14, 2018 failed, Löfven was confirmed in office by the Reichstag on January 18, 2019 and formed a new center cabinet . An agreement had previously been reached with the Center Party and the Liberals. After further talks, the Left Party was persuaded to tolerate it. In the Swedish system it is sufficient if a candidate for the post of prime minister does not have a majority against him, so that in this case it is sufficient to become prime minister again with around a third of the votes and numerous abstentions. On January 21, 2019, Löfven installed the Löfven II government .

On June 21, 2021, the Reichstag expressed mistrust due to a dispute over fixed rental prices for new buildings and he had to decide either to resign or to call a new election within a week. The Sverigedemokraterna had submitted the motion of no confidence . The motion was supported by the Left Party ( Vänsterpartiet ), which opposes the Löfven government's attempt to capitalize on the rental market, as well as by conservative parties that are dissatisfied with the concepts against unemployment and crime. One day before the end of the deadline set for him, on June 28th, Löfven resigned as Prime Minister. In view of the Covid-19 pandemic , a new election is not the best for Sweden, as there is only one year left until the regular parliamentary election. He is available again for the formation of a new government. However, the President of Parliament Andreas Norlén commissioned the chairman of the opposition Moderate Collection Party , Ulf Kristersson , to try to form a government. Kristersson returned the order to no avail. Since Löfven signaled that he had found a solution to form a government tolerated by parliament, Norlén gave him the corresponding mandate again on July 5.

The Swedish Reichstag reaffirmed Löfven as Prime Minister on July 7, 2021. 173 MPs voted against him, 116 for him and 60 MPs abstained. The election of Löfven came about because he was not rejected by an absolute majority of 175 votes in the Reichstag. Löfven has been the prime minister since October 2014. On August 22, 2021, Löfven announced that he would step down as party chairman and prime minister in November 2021 in order to enable a change in leadership among the Social Democrats before the 2022 Reichstag election .

Private

Löfven is married.

Cabinets

• Cabinet Löfven I
• Cabinet Löfven II
• Cabinet Löfven III

See also

• Sweden's political system
• History of Sweden # Since 1945

Web links

Commons : Stefan Löfven  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Stefan Löfven: She is the love of my life. Expressen , December 27, 2013, accessed September 15, 2014 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ Stefan Löfven: A welder for Sweden. Salzburger Nachrichten , September 14, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2014 . 
3. ↑ The times of the stable middle are over. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 13, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Sweden before the change of power. Deutsche Welle , September 14, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Sweden has a new head of government. Handelsblatt , October 2, 2014, accessed on October 2, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Sweden's Prime Minister announces new elections. In: Zeit Online. December 3, 2014, accessed on December 3, 2014 : “The coalition has failed, a new government is to be elected on March 22nd. [...] The new election can only officially be called on December 29th, three months after the last parliamentary election. " 
7. ↑ New elections in Sweden canceled. Der Standard , December 27, 2014, accessed December 27, 2014 . 
8. ↑ December agreement is repealed. Sveriges Television , October 9, 2015, accessed October 9, 2015 (Swedish). 
9. ↑ n-tv.de
10. ↑ FAZ.net December 14, 2018: In Sweden, the formation of a government fails again .
11. ↑ Andrea Seliger: Sweden gets a traffic light. Telepolis , January 19, 2019, accessed on the same day.
12. ↑ Löfven over lever ikke mistillidsafstemning. Retrieved June 21, 2021 (Danish). 
13. ↑ Sweden - Prime Minister Löfven has to face a vote of no confidence - government could fall. Accessed June 21, 2021 (German). 
14. ↑ Regeringen och Regeringskansliet: Digital pressträff med statsministern June 28, 2021. June 28, 2021, accessed on June 28, 2021 (Swedish). 
15. ↑ https://www.faz.net/agenturmmeldung/dpa/schwedens-ministerpraesident-loefven-reich-ruecktritt-ein-17411287.html
16. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/buergerlicher-moderator-ulf-kristersson-soll-schwedens-regierung-bilden-17414181.html
17. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/loefven-wieder-als-schwedens-ministerpraesident-vorgeschlagen-17423101.html
18. ↑ Löfven re-elected Swedish Prime Minister. In: zeit.de . July 7, 2021, accessed July 7, 2021 . 
19. ↑ Sandra Killgren: Stefan Löfven meddelar sin avgång. Sveriges Television , August 22, 2021, accessed August 22, 2021 (Swedish).