Ulf Kristersson

Ulf Kristersson (2018)

Ulf Hjalmar Kristersson (born December 29, 1963 in Lund ) is a Swedish politician and chairman of the Moderate Gathering Party since 2017 .

Life

Ulf Hjalmar Kristersson was born in Lund in 1963 and grew up in the small town of Torshälla near Eskilstuna . In 1983 he graduated from the Sankt-Eskil-Gymnasium in Eskilstuna and served the following year in the Swedish Army , where he was promoted to platoon leader. Between 1985 and 1988 he studied business administration and economics at Uppsala University and obtained his bachelor's degree .

Political career

From 1988 to 1992 Kristersson was chairman of the Moderata ungdomsförbundet , the young party of the Moderata samlingspartiet . In 1991 he became a member of the Swedish Parliament . He was a member of parliament until 2000, where he was a member of the committees for social security and education issues as well as the revision commission. Between 1993 and 1995 he also worked mainly as a book author and published several works on political and economic issues. From 1995, he spent three years as marketing director of the think tank Timbro . From 2000 to 2001 he was PR head of the Swedish consultancy Connecta and the real estate company Adcore and from 2001 to 2002 he was head of communications at Nextwork AB . 2003 Kristersson was in the Kommunalråd the municipality of Strängnäs elected and was responsible until 2006 for financial matters. From 2005 to 2006 he was chairman of the working group for family policy of the Moderata samlingspartiet and from 2008 to 2009 of the working group for migration and integration policy. In 2006 he was also elected Borgarråd of the City of Stockholm , where he was responsible for social issues until 2010. In 2009 he became chairman of the Alliance's family policy working group for Sweden and in 2010 he was responsible for Moderata samlingspartiet's policy on family, social and preschool issues.

On October 5, 2010, he was appointed to succeed Cristina Husmark Pehrsson as Minister for Social Security in the Fredrik Reinfeldt government. He held this post until 2014. On October 1, 2017, Ulf Kristersson succeeded Anna Kinberg Batra as chairman of the moderates .

After a successful vote of no confidence in the Löfven I government on September 25, 2018, Parliament's President Andreas Norlén commissioned Kristersson on October 3 to carry out soundings for a new - bourgeois - government. On October 14th Kristersson had to give back this order, because the Center Party and Liberalerna had rejected a minority government of the Alliance, provided that its formation would have to be supported by the Sweden Democrats.

Web links

Commons : Ulf Kristersson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official portrait on the website of the Swedish government ( Memento from September 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English / Swedish)
• Kristersson in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Career ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ https://www.svd.se/just-nu-moderaterna-valjer-ny-ledare
3. ↑ Ulf Kristersson ger upp försöken att bilda regering . Aftonbladet , October 14, 2018.