Ulf Kristersson

He was Prime Minister of Sweden from 2022 and leads a caretaker government after resigning on 17 September 2026. He is named as the Moderate Party's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2026 Swedish general election.

Career

Kristersson studied economics at Uppsala University. He chaired the Moderate Youth League from 1988 to 1992 and sat in the Riksdag from 1991 to 2000. He was finance mayor in Strängnäs from 2002 to 2006 and a vice mayor of Stockholm from 2006 to 2010, then Minister for Social Security from 2010 to 2014. He returned to the Riksdag in 2014, became Moderate leader in October 2017 and Prime Minister in October 2022. After the September 2026 election Wikipedia reports that the governing coalition lost its majority and he resigned on 17 September 2026, remaining at the head of a caretaker government.

Positions

Wikipedia places Kristersson on the neoliberal wing of the Moderate Party. He describes his aim as a country for hopefuls with social mobility, and he supports stricter immigration policy, including what the article calls compulsory cultural assimilation and Swedish language learning. His party describes itself as combining conservative and liberal ideas, with tax cuts, free markets and economic liberalism.

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