Håkan Juholt

Håkan Juholt at the extraordinary party conference in 2011

Håkan Juholt (born September 16, 1962 in Oskarshamn ) is a Swedish politician and was from March 2011 to January 2012 chairman of the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party (SAP) .

As a teenager, Juholt followed in the footsteps of his artistically gifted and politically ambitious father, who worked as a graphic designer and held the post of mayor of Oskarshamn in the 1970s. In high school, Juholt decided on the social profile and was elected chairman of the student council thanks to his self-confident, assertive demeanor. He earned his first income as a self-trained photographer and journalist for the local newspaper Nyheterna . The early membership in the Swedish Young Socialists opened up many opportunities for Juholt to become politically active nationwide and even internationally. He was particularly interested in the liberation movement in Nicaragua and the Polish Solidarność .

In 1984 Juholt's political rise began when he was elected head of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth Association. The only higher post in the SAP youth organization was held by Anna Lindh , who was considered the future leader of the Social Democrats until her murder in 2003. Juholt moved into the Reichstag in 1994 , where he specialized in defense policy issues. For many years he chaired both the Defense Committee and the Defense Commission. In 2004 he was named one of the deputy party secretaries of SAP. Behind the party leaders Göran Persson - Swedish Prime Minister between 1996 and 2006 - and Mona Sahlin - who did not manage to govern with the Social Democrats - Juholt remained a rather pale politician with symbolic secondary positions: for example, he headed the party- affiliated foundations Johan Lindgrens fredsfond , in memory to the well-known Swedish labor historian , and the days Erlander minnesfond , in memory of the former Swedish Prime Minister.

It was not until 2010, after Sahlin's defeat against the bourgeois electoral alliance around Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt , that Juholt literally ventured out of cover and demanded the staff renewal at SAP. He found support above all from the party left and the chairman of the Young Socialists Jytte Guteland . Sahlin gave in to the growing pressure and declared in the fall of 2010 that she did not want to run for party leadership again. On March 10, 2011, the SAP election committee proposed Håkan Juholt as the new party leader. He was given preference over the incumbent party secretary Ibrahim Baylan , who also announced his resignation, and his long-term predecessor Marita Ulvskog . On March 25th, Juholt was elected as the new chairman at the extraordinary party conference of SAP.

On October 7, 2011, the newspaper Aftonbladet reported that Håkan Juholt had been reimbursed 90,000 Swedish kronor too much for housing costs due to false information to the Reichstag administration. Later this amount increased to 160,000 crowns. On October 10, 2011, a preliminary investigation into suspected fraud was launched. The preliminary investigation was later closed. The criticism from within the ranks of his own party did not subside, however, as Juholt also expressed controversy on other issues. On January 21, 2012, he therefore announced his immediate resignation from the office of party chairman.

Since January 27, 2012, the Labor Party has been led by Stefan Löfven as its new chairman. In August 2016, Juholt also resigned from his Reichstag mandate, thereby ending his political career.

Juholt lives with his partner Åsa and his two sons from his first marriage in Oskarshamn and Mönsterås , where he owns a summer house.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sveriges Radio March 25, 2011
2. ↑ http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article13741591.ab
3. ↑ http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/juholt-valkomnar-forundersokning_6540185.svd
4. ↑ http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/juholt-jag-avgar-som-partiledare_6786823.svd
5. ^ Dagens Nyheter March 25, 2011

Web links

Commons : Håkan Juholt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Swedish)
• Page at the Reichstag (Swedish)