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State secretary (Swedish:statssekreterare) is the title of the senior political appointee, second in rank to the cabinet minister (Swedish:Statsråd) in charge of the ministry. Unlike ministers, state secretaries are not members of thegovernment.
Each cabinet minister is appointed a state secretary to help with administrative duties. Some cabinet ministers of higher rank, like theprime minister and theminister for finance, have more than one state secretary. If a minister dies or resigns, or if a government changes, the state secretary also turns in their resignation.
For historical reasons, thestate secretary in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs has another title (Swedish:kabinettssekreterare, in English literally "cabinet secretary"). State secretaries tend to, more often than ministers, hail from a fixedcivil servant background or a professional background relevant to the area of responsibility of their ministry.
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