Mikael Damberg

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Mikael Damberg (* 1971 in Solna , Sweden ) is a Swedish politician ( SAP ) and Minister of the Interior in the Löfven II government .

Life

Mikael Damberg was born the son of diplomat and social democratic politician Nils Gösta Damberg in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm . From 1995 to 1997 he worked as an expert witness for Defense Secretary Thage G. Peterson and from 1997 to 1999 for Prime Minister Göran Persson . In 2000 he completed his studies in Public Administration at the University of Stockholm from. From 1994 to 2002 Damberg was a member of Solna's municipal council, responsible for culture and leisure.

SSU chairman

Damberg's political career began in the Sveriges socialdemokratiska ungdomsförbund (SSU), the youth organization of the Swedish Social Democratic Party . In 1999, Damberg, who was seen as a representative of the right wing of the party, narrowly prevailed against Luciano Astudillo in the election for SSU chairman . He announced that he wanted to mediate the wing battles that had been raging since the early 1990s. However, several regional associations accused Damberg of driving the SSU to the right and boycotted his re-election in 2001. In August 2003, he was replaced by Ardalan Shekarabi . As SSU chairman, Damberg made sure, among other things, that the term socialism was deleted from the basic program of the SSU.

Reichstag member

In the 2002 Reichstag election , Damberg entered the Swedish Reichstag for the first time . There he was a member of the Education Committee until 2012, of which he was Deputy Chairman from 2010. He received special attention for his motion to abolish the royal family and establish a republic in December 2002.

After Mona Sahlin's resignation announcement, Damberg announced his candidacy as party leader of the Social Democrats in 2011. However, the party's electoral committee nominated Håkan Juholt for this office, who was also elected by the party congress on March 25, 2011. After Juholt's resignation in January 2012, Stefan Löfven became party leader who made Damberg leader of the Social Democrats in the Reichstag. Löfven and Damberg, together with the economic policy spokeswoman Magdalena Andersson and the general secretary Carin Jämtin, were considered to be the party's hopes and were described by the media as “fantastic four”. Since the party chairman Löfven did not hold a mandate in the Reichstag, Damberg represented the Social Democrats in the regular debates of the party chairmen in the Reichstag from 2012.

In October 2013, Damberg was criticized for missing a Reichstag vote to increase the tax allowance. This enabled the bourgeois government to push through the increase with a majority of one vote.

minister

In the 2014 Reichstag elections , the red-green bloc received a majority and Damberg became Minister of Economics and Innovation in the Löfven I government . In this role he was responsible for the state energy company Vattenfall and oversaw the sale of the lignite division to the Czech EPH group. He also campaigned for stronger trade ties with Saudi Arabia .

Damberg has been Minister of the Interior in the Löfven II government since January 2019 . In May 2019, he campaigned for the establishment of an international tribunal to pursue IS terrorists of European origin directly in the former war region. In September 2019, Damberg invited all parties represented in the Reichstag except the Sweden Democrats for talks in which measures to combat gang crime were to be discussed. However, these non-partisan talks failed after a few weeks after the bourgeois moderates , Christian Democrats and liberals declared their exit due to the government's unwillingness to compromise.

Observers attribute a central role to Damberg in the negotiations to avert the government crisis in December 2014 and to form a government with the bourgeois parties after the 2018 Reichstag election .

Web links

Commons : Mikael Damberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mats Eriksson: Ardalan Shekarabi ny ordförande i SSU. In: Aftonbladet . August 6, 2003, accessed October 9, 2019 (Swedish).
  2. ^ Thomas Eriksson: Protester när SSU: s ordförande omvaldes. In: Aftonbladet . August 6, 2001, Retrieved October 9, 2019 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ Hans-Peter Fischer: Jusokongress for relaxation of the right of asylum. In: Radio Sweden . August 6, 2001, Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Johan Edgar: Riksdagen vill skrota fluctuations. In: Aftonbladet . December 27, 2002, accessed October 9, 2019 (Swedish).
  5. ↑ Anders Munck, Kristoffer Törnmalm: Damberg: "Vill ta ansvar för S". In: Aftonbladet . February 17, 2011, accessed October 9, 2019 (Swedish).
  6. ↑ S-ledare presenterade sitt was. In: Sveriges Radio . February 23, 2012, Retrieved October 9, 2019 (Swedish).
  7. ↑ Jens Gmeiner: The "future party" of Sweden? (PDF; 1.5 MB) In: International Policy Analysis. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , March 2013, p. 10 , accessed on October 9, 2019 .
  8. ^ Pär Karlsson, Elisabeth Marmorstein : Mikael Damberg i Lövfens ställe. In: Aftonbladet . June 13, 2012, Retrieved October 9, 2019 (Swedish).
  9. ↑ Johan Wicklén, Charlotte Lindahl, Johanna Eklundh: Damberg: Jag missade vote wrestle. In: SVT Nyheter . October 24, 2013, accessed October 10, 2019 (Swedish).
  10. ↑ Lignite: Vattenfall sells lignite division to the Czech Republic. In: Zeit Online . July 2, 2016, accessed October 10, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Mathias Asplund: Damberg tecknar nytt avtal med Saudi Arabia. In: Expressen . October 20, 2015, accessed October 10, 2019 (Swedish).
  12. ^ Rudolf Hermann: Sweden is exploring the possibility of an international IS tribunal. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 21, 2019, accessed October 9, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Damberg: Vi behöver ta gemensamma day. In: Sydsvenskan . September 1, 2019, accessed October 10, 2019 .
  14. ↑ L, M och KD lämnar gangsamtal. In: Sveriges Radio . September 21, 2019, accessed October 10, 2019 (Swedish).
  15. ↑ Kerstin Holm, Anders Naeselius: Det hemliga spelet bakom uppgörelsen. In: SVT Nyheter . December 27, 2014, accessed October 10, 2019 (Swedish).
  16. ↑ Tomas Nordenskiöld: Okända historien om Damberg - så han säkrade Makten åt Löfven. In: Expressen . September 27, 2019, Retrieved October 9, 2019 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Damberg, Mikael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish politician (SAP) and Minister of the Interior
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Solna