Göran Persson

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Göran Persson (born Hans Göran Persson the January 20th 1949 in Vingåker in Sweden), is a Swedish politician.

He was the 31ème Prime Minister of the Sweden of the March 22nd 1996 with the October 5th 2006. He also directed the left social democrat Swedish the March 22nd 1996 to the March 18th 2007.

Biography

He was born in Vingaker in the Södermanland to 180 km in south-west from Stockholm, in a working-class family. He made studies of social science at the University of Örebro. In February 2005 it accepted the honorary distinction of doctor of medicine, the University of Örebro having accepted the official statute of university; this reward started small a contreverse.

He married first once with Gunnel Claesson in 1978 with which he had two girls. They divorce in 1995. He remarie the 10 March 1995 with Annika Barthine, they divorce in December 2002. He is married with Anitra Steen since the 6 December 2003, which is director of the Systembolaget holding the monopoly of alcoholic drinks of the country.

Very believing since its youth, he is today member of Association Suédoise of the Democratic Social Christians.

Political career

With the beginning of the year 1970 it militates within the Section of the young people of the social democrats Swedish.

It is seen entrusting various missions within the small town of Katrineholm and obtains its first mandate of Député to the Riksdag in 1979. After five years of delegations it becomes again city council man with Katrineholm.

After a few years of local policy it returns to Stockholm to become in 1989 Minister for education and science within the government of Ingvar Carlsson. Of 1989 with 1991 it deals with the questions related to public education and secondary.

It is then named at the important station of Minister for Finance by Carlsson in 1994, after the new victory of its party to the detriment of the outgoing liberal government of Carl Bildt. Its main mission is to stabilize the budget, it preaches the strict budgetary policy necessary to the entry in the European Union.

Chief of the democratic social party and Prime Minister

In 1996, he is elected president of the Social democrat Party to the detriment of Mona Sahlin and thus finishes the mandate of Ingvar Carlsson at the station of Prime Minister of the Sweden until 1998. He is renewed at the post of Prime Minister after the victory of his party in 1998 in coalition with the ecologists and the ex-Communists. Its first mandate is marked by a budget surplus, by a strong economy, as well as a fall of unemployment.

It is thus renewed at its station in 2002, and directs a minority government made up of its same allies.

It is with the head of a country whose social success and the economic good health are rented. However the end of its second mandate is more difficult, indeed of many partisans regret the fact that the rate unemployment did not pass by again under the 6%. The slow management of the Tsunami of December 2004, where many Swedish found death (more than five hundreds) is also décriée and its approval rating suffered a little from it. Whereas it really did not wish to be presented, it is chief candidate of its party at the time of the elections of 2006, not finding successors after the death of his Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.

At the time of the legislative elections of the September 17th 2006, the outgoing left majority that it directed gained only 46,2 % of the votes (of which 35,2 % for the social democrat left ) against 48,1 % for the line coalition dominated by the conservative party of Fredrik Reinfeldt. Göran Persson thus left the head of the government. He announced his departure of the direction of the social democrat left and was replaced by Mona Sahlin at the time of the extraordinary congress which take place with Stockholm March 17th and 18th 2007.

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