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The cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt is the current cabinet of Sweden. It is a coalition cabinet consisting of the four parties in the centre-right Alliance for Sweden: the Moderate Party, Centre Party, Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats. The cabinet was installed on 6 October 2006, following the 2006 general election which ousted the Social Democrats after twelve years in power. It is led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt of the Moderate Party.

Contents 1 Ministers 2 Party breakdown 3 Facts and statistics 4 New ministries 5 Policy of the cabinet 6 Controversies and resignations 7 Public perception 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Ministers

Portfolio	Minister	Party		Took office	Left office
Prime Minister's Office
Prime Minister, Head of the Prime Minister's Office	Fredrik Reinfeldt		Moderate Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Minister for EU Affairs	Cecilia Malmström		Liberal People's Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Ministry of Justice
Minister for Justice, Head of the Ministry of Justice	Beatrice Ask		Moderate Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy	Tobias Billström		Moderate Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Head of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs	Carl Bildt		Moderate Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Minister for Trade	Maria Borelius		Moderate Party	6 October 2006	14 October 2006
	Sten Tolgfors		Moderate Party	24 October 2006	6 September 2007
	Ewa Björling		Moderate Party	12 September 2007	Incumbent
Minister for International Development Cooperation	Gunilla Carlsson		Moderate Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Ministry of Defence
Minister for Defence, Head of the Ministry of Defence	Mikael Odenberg		Moderate Party	6 October 2006	5 September 2007
	Sten Tolgfors		Moderate Party	5 September 2007	Incumbent
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
Minister for Health and Social Affairs, Head of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs	Göran Hägglund		Christian Democrats	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Minister for Elderly Care and Public Health	Maria Larsson		Christian Democrats	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Minister for Social Security	Cristina Husmark Pehrsson		Moderate Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Ministry of Finance
Minister for Finance, Head of the Ministry of Finance	Anders Borg		Moderate Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Minister for Local Government and Financial Markets	Mats Odell		Christian Democrats	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Ministry of Education and Research
Minister for Education, Head of the Ministry of Education and Research	Lars Leijonborg		Liberal People's Party	6 October 2006	12 September 2007
	Jan Björklund		Liberal People's Party	12 September 2007	Incumbent
Minister for Schools	Jan Björklund		Liberal People's Party	6 October 2006	12 September 2007
Minister for Higher Education and Research	Lars Leijonborg		Liberal People's Party	12 September 2007	17 June 2009
	Tobias Krantz		Liberal People's Party	17 June 2009	Incumbent
Ministry of Agriculture
Minister for Agriculture, Head of the Ministry of Agriculture	Eskil Erlandsson		Centre Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Ministry of the Environment
Minister for the Environment, Head of the Ministry of the Environment	Andreas Carlgren		Centre Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications
Minister for Enterprise and Energy, Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications	Maud Olofsson		Centre Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Minister for Communications	Åsa Torstensson		Centre Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality
Minister for Integration and Gender Equality, Head of the Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality	Nyamko Sabuni		Liberal People's Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent
Ministry of Culture
Minister for Culture, Head of the Ministry of Culture	Cecilia Stegö Chilò		Moderate Party	6 October 2006	16 October 2006
	Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth		Moderate Party	24 October 2006	Incumbent
Ministry of Employment
Minister for Employment, Head of the Ministry of Employment	Sven Otto Littorin		Moderate Party	6 October 2006	Incumbent

[edit] Party breakdown

Party breakdown of cabinet ministers:

Moderate Party	11
Centre Party	4
Liberal People's Party	4
Christian Democrats	3

[edit] Facts and statistics

• Gender balance: 9 women and 13 men (although the ratio was initially 10 women and 12 men).
• First Swedish Minister of African descent: Nyamko Sabuni.
• First Swedish openly homosexual Minister: Andreas Carlgren.
• First Swedish openly bisexual Minister: Tobias Billström.
• Youngest Swedish Prime Minister in 80 years: Fredrik Reinfeldt.
• First former Prime Minister to return as Foreign Minister since 1979 - Carl Bildt.
• First majority government in 25 years.

[edit] New ministries

• Ministry of Employment, belonged to the Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications in the cabinet of Göran Persson.
• Ministry of Culture, belonged to the Ministry of Education and Culture in the cabinet of Göran Persson.
• Ministry of Environment was before called the Ministry of Sustainable Development.
• Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality, belonged to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Göran Persson.

[edit] Policy of the cabinet

This section requires expansion.

The new government was presented on October 6, 2006. The following reforms have been proposed:

• Communication and transportation:
  • The tax on automotive fuels will be raised because of inflation adjustment, by 9 öre per litre for gasoline and 6 öre per litre for diesel (excluding VAT).^[1]
• Culture:
  • The new government plans to reintroduce entrance fees to the country's 21 state-operated museums.^[2]
  • Third-party liability premiums for vehicle insurance will be raised.^[1]
  • The current operator's license for the public service broadcasters Sveriges Television, Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Utbildningsradio will come up for renegotiation in three years, instead of six as negotiated with the outgoing government.^[3]
• Education:
  • The reform of the secondary education (gymnasium) which was to take effect from January 1, 2007 will be scrapped and instead the new government will start planning for a deeper reform to take place some time before 2010.^[4]
• Government agencies:
  • The following government agencies will be closed down: Swedish Integration Board (Swedish: Integrationsverket), National Institute for Working Life (Swedish: Arbetslivsinstitutet), Swedish Animal Welfare Agency (Swedish: Djurskyddsmyndigheten) and the County Labour Boards (Swedish: länsarbetsnämnderna).^[5]
  • All agencies are being scrutinized for reformation.
  • The director general, presidents and leaders are not to be employed by party association and instead by based competence.
• Foreign aid:
  • The monetary foreign aid's goal and what countries receiving aid is being reconsider.

[edit] Controversies and resignations

On October 7, 2006, the day after the new cabinet was announced two of the ministers, the Minister for Foreign Trade Maria Borelius and the Minister for Culture Cecilia Stegö Chilò, admitted that they had previously employed persons to take care of their children without paying the appropriate taxes. On October 11, 2006 it came to light that Cecilia Stegö Chilò and her husband had not paid their TV license for the last 16 years. On October 12, 2006, it emerged that two other ministers in the cabinet had neglected to pay the television license; Maria Borelius and the Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy, Tobias Billström.^[6] Radiotjänst i Kiruna AB, the private agency tasked with collecting the license fee, filed criminal charges against Cecilia Stegö Chilò, Maria Borelius and Tobias Billström.^[7]

On October 14, 2006, Maria Borelius resigned as Minister for Foreign Trade. On October 16, 2006, just two days after Maria Borelius resignation, Minister for Culture Cecilia Stegö Chilò resigned as well.^[8]

The Minister for Defence, Mikael Odenberg, resigned on September 5, 2007 as he thought the budget cuts his department would face where to high.^[9]

[edit] Public perception

In public opinion survey conducted by Aftonbladet/Sifo in late 2006, the Swedish public was asked to rate each of the new ministers on a 5-graded scale. The average result for the 22 ministers was 2.93.^[10] This is the higher than any of the rates that the Social Democratic Persson cabinet ever received during its years in power, and the highest ratings ever since the surveys started in 1996.^[11]

From the Swedish general election, 2006 the opinions for the Reinfeldt cabinet have declined steadily from a level of about 51% down to a level about 40%^[12], which election researchers generally explain as more than what could be expected due to normal inter-election popularity fall^{[citation needed]}. Center-right newspapers in Sweden criticize the cabinet for not being pedagogically proficient^{[citation needed]}, while the opposition newspapers just connects the impopularity of the cabinet with the scandals and the performed practical politics^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The Government and the Government Offices of Sweden
• Statement of Government Policy (6 October 2006)

Preceded by Persson

Cabinet of Sweden 2006–present

Incumbent