Ibrahim Baylan

Ibrahim Baylan 2016

Ibrahim Baylan (* 1972 in Salih , Turkey ) is a Turkish- Swedish politician ( SAP ) and Minister of Economics in the Löfven II government .

Life

Baylan, who belongs to the Assyrian minority, was born in south-eastern Turkey . At the beginning of the 1980s, after a military coup, he fled with his family from Turkey to Sweden and initially lived in Botkyrka , a suburb of Stockholm . Between 1993 and 1999 he studied economics and political science at Umeå University. During his studies he was involved in the social democratic party and in university politics. From 1997 to 1999 he was chairman of the social democratic youth organization SSU in Umeå and from 1997 to 1998 chairman of the student council at Umeå University. In the 1998 Reichstag election , Baylan ran as a single candidate without the support of his party, but was not elected. In 2002 he moved to the city council of Umea one, to which he belonged by 2004. During this period he was a member of the school committee and chairman of the equality committee. From 2001 to 2004 he also worked as ombudsman for the HTF trade union in the Västerbotten region .

School Minister and Reichstag Member (2004-2014)

In 2004, Baylan was unexpectedly appointed school minister by Prime Minister Göran Persson . This made him the first immigrant of non-European origin to hold a ministerial office in Sweden. In June 2005, Baylan was reprimanded by the Swedish parliament after criticizing a Swedish school board report on private schools . On the same day, the school board withdrew the report. The opposition then accused Baylan of having unjustifiably interfered in the work of the school board, because the report did not correspond to his political convictions.

Since Prime Minister Persson lost his majority in the 2006 Reichstag election , Baylan resigned from the government. At the same time he moved into the Swedish Reichstag for the first time. There he was a member of the school and transport committee as well as of the war delegation, which can take the place of the Reichstag in the event of war. In the following elections in 2010 and 2014, he defended his mandate in the Reichstag. In 2009 Baylan became general secretary of the Social Democratic Party. After losing the Reichstag elections in 2010 , he and the party leader Mona Sahlin were criticized within the party. In March 2011, shortly after Sahlin's resignation, Baylan resigned as Secretary General.

Energy and Economics Minister (since 2014)

Ibrahim Baylan (right) with Indian Energy Minister Piyush Goyal (2016)

In the 2014 Reichstag elections , the Social Democrats, Greens and Leftists regained a majority. Baylan became Minister of Energy in the newly formed Löfven I government . In this role, he aimed for a gradual switch to renewable energies . He saw nuclear energy as a transition technology that should be replaced in the long term by renewable energy sources and energy savings. Baylan represented the Social Democrats in the negotiations on the Swedish energy supply, which in 2016 led to the conclusion of the so-called energy agreement between the ruling Social Democrats and Greens as well as the opposition Moderates , the Center and the Christian Democrats . Among other things, the agreement provided for the complete switch to renewable electricity generation by 2040 and the construction of up to ten new nuclear reactors .

As part of a government reshuffle in June 2016, Baylan also became Minister for Government Coordination. After the 2018 Reichstag election , he became Minister of Economics in the Löfven II government in January 2019 .

Within the Social Democratic Party, Baylan is assigned to the right wing.

Web links

Commons : Ibrahim Baylan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Baylan profile on the website of the Swedish government
• Baylan profile on the homepage of the Swedish parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Förre skolministern och Umea alumni Ibrahim Baylan blir Social Democrat Erna nye partisekreterare. Umeå University , March 6, 2009, accessed September 12, 2019 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ Behrang Behdjou, Fred Forsell and Sofia Johansson: Ibrahim blir första utomeuropé i en svensk regering. Expressen , October 21, 2014, accessed September 12, 2019 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ "Skolminister Baylan gick över gränsen". Svenska Dagbladet , April 12, 2005, accessed September 12, 2019 (Swedish). 
4. ↑ Ibrahim Baylan prickad av riksdagen. SVT Nyheter , June 2, 2005, accessed September 12, 2019 (Swedish). 
5. ↑ Anette Holmqvist, Victor Stenquist and David Levin: Ibrahim Baylan avgår som partisekreterare. Aftonbladet , March 6, 2011, accessed September 12, 2019 (Swedish). 
6. ↑ Stefan Nordberg: Ibrahim Baylan: Sverige ska ha 100 percent förnybar energi. Ny Teknik, November 18, 2014, accessed October 12, 2019 (Swedish). 
7. ^ Merve Erdil: Portrait of a Swedish energy minister from 'powerless' Turkish village. Hürriyet Daily News , April 27, 2016, accessed September 12, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Energiuppgörelse clear mellan fem partier. Sveriges Radio , June 10, 2016, accessed September 12, 2019 (Swedish). 
9. ↑ Erik Magnusson: Ibrahim Baylan ny Socialdemokratisk partisekreterare. Sydsvenskan , February 25, 2009, accessed September 12, 2019 (Swedish).