35 Facts About Ulf Kristersson

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Ulf Hjalmar Ed Kristersson was born on 29 December 1963 and is a Swedish politician who has been serving as Prime Minister of Sweden since October 2022.

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Ulf Kristersson has been the leader of the Moderate Party since October 2017 and a member of the Riksdag for Sodermanland County since 2014 and for Stockholm County from 1991 to 2000.

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Ulf Kristersson previously served as Minister for Social Security from 2010 to 2014 and as Chairman of the Moderate Youth League from 1988 to 1992.

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On 1 October 2017 Kristersson was elected party leader of the Moderate Party after Anna Kinberg Batra stepped down.

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Ulf Kristersson was born in Lund, Skane County, as the eldest of three children to Lars Kristersson who worked with economics and teacher Karin Kristersson.

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Ulf Kristersson finished secondary school at S:t Eskils gymnasium in Eskilstuna.

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In 1991, the centre-right Bildt Cabinet took power, and Ulf Kristersson became an MP.

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Ulf Kristersson soon becomes a vocal critic of the government's crisis agreement with Social Democrats.

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At the time, Ulf Kristersson developed a friendship with the former party leader, Gosta Bohman, who, in some respects, supported his criticism of the Bildt Cabinet.

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In 1992, Ulf Kristersson was challenged as chairman of MUF by Fredrik Reinfeldt.

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From 1995 to 1998, Ulf Kristersson was chief of marketing at Timbro, a free market think-tank, while working in parliament.

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Ulf Kristersson left his parliamentary seat in April 2000, feeling that the new party leader Bo Lundgren had declined his services.

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Ulf Kristersson worked for two years in the private sector, mainly as communications director and VP for the internet consultancy Adcore, a dotcom crash casualty.

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Ulf Kristersson returned to active politics in 2002 as Commissioner for Finance in Strangnas and served there until 2006.

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The investigation was closed with the motivation that Ulf Kristersson did not have direct influence over the aid that the association could give.

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Ulf Kristersson immediately caused controversy by suggesting that fathers must take a month of paternity leave for the family to receive all benefits.

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On 5 October 2010, Fredrik Reinfeldt appointed Ulf Kristersson to become Minister of Social Security, a position he held for four years.

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Ulf Kristersson has a harsher stance against immigration than his predecessors.

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Ulf Kristersson initially sought to form a government coalition involving the Alliance parties with support from the Swedish Social Democratic Party.

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Ulf Kristersson held a meeting in December 2019 with Jimmie Akesson, leader of the Sweden Democrats, and said that he would cooperate with them in parliament.

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The anti-immigration party had previously been subject to a cordon sanitaire by all other parties, with Ulf Kristersson himself ruling out dialogue with them ahead of the 2018 elections.

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On 29 June 2021, after Prime Minister Stefan Lofven was ousted, Speaker of the Riksdag Andreas Norlen formally tasked Ulf Kristersson with forming a government.

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Ulf Kristersson planned to lead a coalition of his own party along with the Christian Democrats, Liberals, and Sweden Democrats.

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Ulf Kristersson led the Moderate Party during the 2022 campaign, in which his party lost parliamentary seats, as well as the second place position ; nonetheless, the right-wing bloc gained an absolute majority, resulting in Magdalena Andersson's resignation and Ulf Kristersson's nomination as Prime Minister by Speaker Andreas Norlen.

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Ulf Kristersson signalled his preference for a coalition government between M, the Christian Democrats and Liberals with external support from the Sweden Democrats.

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Ulf Kristersson began his term of office with a significantly lower popularity rating than that of the outgoing Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson.

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On 8 March 2023, the Ulf Kristersson government submitted the bill allowing Sweden's membership in NATO to the Riksdag, which then approved a revised version of the bill on 22 March 2023.

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The first foreign leaders met by Ulf Kristersson was Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, whom he travelled to Helsinki to meet on 28 October 2022.

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Ulf Kristersson held bilateral meetings with both, primarily focused on the ongoing energy crisis, defense and security policy and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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On 7 November 2022, Ulf Kristersson attended the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh and delivered the national address to the conference as well as co-chaired discussions on food supply chains.

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On 15 February 2023, Ulf Kristersson visited Ukraine and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss about the ongoing Russian invasion.

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Ulf Kristersson stressed that Ukraine "Ukraine belongs to Europe and belongs in the European Union".

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Ulf Kristersson was described in the same profile as representing the neoliberal wing of the Moderate Party.

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Ulf Kristersson himself has described social mobility as one of his core concerns in politics.

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Ulf Kristersson initially ruled out forming an alliance with the Sweden Democrats upon assuming party leadership; following the 2018 Swedish general election, he ended the policy of non-cooperation and met with SD's leadership for official talks.