Fredrik Reinfeldt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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32nd Prime Minister of Sweden
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Place of Birth: Haninge Municipality, Sweden
About Fredrik Reinfeldt
- John Fredrik Reinfeldt (pronounced ['fre?dr?k ?rajn?f?lt] (listen); born 4 August 1965) is a Swedish economist, lecturer and former politician who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and chairman of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015.
- He was the last rotating President of the European Council in 2009. A native of Stockholm County, Reinfeldt joined the Moderate Youth League in 1983, and by 1992 had risen to the rank of chairman, a position he held until 1995.
- He served as Member of Parliament from 1991 to 2014, representing his home constituency.
- Reinfeldt was elected party leader on 25 October 2003, succeeding Bo Lundgren.
- Under his leadership, the Moderate Party has transformed its policies and oriented itself towards the centre, branding itself "the New Moderates" (Swedish: Nya moderaterna). Following the 2006 general election, Reinfeldt was elected Prime Minister on 6 October.
- Along with the three other political parties in the centre-right Alliance for Sweden, Reinfeldt presided over a coalition government with the support of a narrow majority in parliament.
- At the age of 41, he was the third-youngest person to become Prime Minister of Sweden. Reinfeldt's first term in office was marked by the late-2000s financial crisis and recession.
- His popularity fell until the economy of Sweden emerged as one of the strongest in Europe; this brought a resurgence of support for him, resulting in his government's re-election in 2010.
- Despite the Moderate Party getting its highest share of the vote since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1921, Reinfeldt's government was reduced to a minority government, owing to the rise of Sweden Democrats; but he remained in power as the first centre-right Prime Minister since the Swedish-Norwegian Union to be re-elected. His premiership was characterised by "Arbetslinjen" (English: Working line), a focus on getting more people into the workforce, and by management of the late-2000s financial crisis and recession which resulted in one of the world's strongest public finances and top rankings in climate and health care. He is the longest-serving non-Social Democratic Prime Minister since Erik Gustaf Boström's first spell in office between 1891 and 1900.
- After his defeat in the 2014 election Reinfeldt announced that he would step down from leading the party, which he did on 10 January 2015.
- The year following his resignation as party leader for the Moderate Party was characterised by the European migrant crisis.
- Reinfeldt personalised the Swedish "open-door" migration policy during his tenure as Prime Minister.
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