Fredrik Reinfeldt's cabinet
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52nd Cabinet of Sweden | |
Date formed | 6 October 2006 |
Date dissolved | 3 October 2014 |
People and organisations | |
Head of state | Carl XVI Gustaf |
Head of government | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Deputy head of government | Maud Olofsson (2006–2010) Jan Björklund (2010–2014) |
No. of ministers | 25 |
Ministers removed | 17 |
Member party | Moderate Party Liberal People's Party Centre Party Christian Democrats |
Status in legislature | Coalition majority government (2006–2010) Coalition minority government (2010–2014) |
History | |
Elections | 2006 election 2010 election |
Predecessor | Persson's cabinet |
Successor | Löfven's cabinet |
The cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt (Swedish: Regeringen Reinfeldt) was the cabinetofSweden from 2006 to 2014. It was 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 retained power after the 2010 general election as a minority government, and was the longest-serving consecutive non-social democratic government since the cabinet of Erik Gustaf Boström in 1900. It was led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt of the Moderate Party.
Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | Party | |||||
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Prime Minister's Office | |||||||||
Prime Minister | 6 October 2006 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | ||||||
Deputy Prime Minister not a separate minister post | 6 October 2006 | 5 October 2010 | Centre | ||||||
5 October 2010 | 3 October 2014 | Liberals | |||||||
Minister for European Affairs | 6 October 2006 | 22 January 2010 | Liberals | ||||||
2 February 2010 | 3 October 2014 | Liberals | |||||||
Ministry of Justice | |||||||||
Minister for Justice | 6 October 2006 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | ||||||
Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy | 6 October 2006 | 29 September 2014 | Moderate | ||||||
Ministry for Foreign Affairs | |||||||||
Minister for Foreign Affairs | 6 October 2006 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | ||||||
Minister of Commerce and Industry | 6 October 2006 | 14 October 2006 | Moderate | ||||||
24 October 2006 | 6 September 2007 | Moderate | |||||||
12 September 2007 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | |||||||
Minister for International Development Cooperation | 6 October 2006 | 17 September 2013 | Moderate | ||||||
17 September 2013 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | |||||||
Ministry of Defence | |||||||||
Minister for Defence | 6 October 2006 | 5 September 2007 | Moderate | ||||||
5 September 2007 | 29 March 2012 | Moderate | |||||||
29 March 2012 | 18 April 2012 | Moderate | |||||||
18 April 2012 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | |||||||
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs | |||||||||
Minister for Health and Social Affairs | 6 October 2006 | 3 October 2014 | Christian Democrats | ||||||
Minister for Elderly and Children Welfare | 6 October 2006 | 3 October 2014 | Christian Democrats | ||||||
Minister for Public Administration and Housing | 5 October 2010 | 3 October 2014 | Christian Democrats | ||||||
Minister for Social Security | 6 October 2006 | 5 October 2010 | Moderate | ||||||
5 October 2010 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | |||||||
Ministry of Finance | |||||||||
Minister for Finance | 6 October 2006 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | ||||||
Minister for Financial Markets | 6 October 2006 | 5 October 2010 | Christian Democrats | ||||||
5 October 2010 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | |||||||
Ministry of Education and Research | |||||||||
Minister for Education | 6 October 2006 | 12 September 2007 | Liberals | ||||||
12 September 2007 | 3 October 2014 | Liberals | |||||||
Minister for Schools | 6 October 2006 | 12 September 2007 | Liberals | ||||||
Minister for Higher Education and Research | 12 September 2007 | 17 June 2009 | Liberals | ||||||
17 June 2009 | 5 October 2010 | Liberals | |||||||
Minister for Gender Equality | 5 October 2010 | 21 January 2013 | Liberals | ||||||
21 January 2013 | 3 October 2014 | Liberals | |||||||
Ministry of Agriculture | |||||||||
Minister for Agriculture | 6 October 2006 | 3 October 2014 | Centre | ||||||
Ministry of the Environment | |||||||||
Minister for the Environment | 6 October 2006 | 29 September 2011 | Centre | ||||||
29 September 2011 | 3 October 2014 | Centre | |||||||
Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications | |||||||||
Minister for Enterprise | 6 October 2006 | 29 September 2011 | Centre | ||||||
29 September 2011 | 3 October 2014 | Centre | |||||||
Minister of IT and Energy | 5 October 2010 | 3 October 2014 | Centre | ||||||
Minister for Infrastructure | 6 October 2006 | 5 October 2010 | Centre | ||||||
5 October 2010 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | |||||||
Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality | |||||||||
Minister for Integration and Gender Equality | 6 October 2006 | 5 October 2010 | Liberals | ||||||
Ministry of Culture | |||||||||
Minister for Culture | 6 October 2006 | 16 October 2006 | Moderate | ||||||
24 October 2006 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | |||||||
Ministry of Employment | |||||||||
Minister for Employment | 6 October 2006 | 7 July 2010 | Moderate | ||||||
7 July 2010 | 5 October 2010 | Moderate | |||||||
5 October 2010 | 17 September 2013 | Moderate | |||||||
17 September 2013 | 3 October 2014 | Moderate | |||||||
Minister for Integration | 5 October 2010 | 3 October 2014 | Liberals |
Party breakdown of cabinet ministers:
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The new government was presented on 6 October 2006. The following reforms were proposed:
On 7 October 2006, the day after the new cabinet was announced two of the ministers, the Minister of 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 11 October 2006 it came to light that Cecilia Stegö Chilò and her husband had not paid their TV license for the last 16 years. On 12 October 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.[12] 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.[13]
On 14 October 2006 Maria Borelius resigned as Minister of Foreign Trade. On 16 October 2006, just two days after Maria Borelius' resignation, Minister for Culture Cecilia Stegö Chilò resigned as well.[14]
The Minister for Defence, Mikael Odenberg, resigned on 5 September 2007 as he thought the budget cuts his department would face were to high.[15]
On 29 March 2012 Minister for Defence, Sten Tolgfors, resigned due to Project Simoom.
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.[16] This is 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.[17]
From the 2006 Swedish general election the opinions for the Reinfeldt cabinet have declined steadily from a level of about 51% down to a level about 40%,[18] 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]
Preceded by | Cabinet of Sweden 2006–2014 |
Succeeded by |