Fredrik Reinfeldt's cabinet | |
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 52nd Cabinet ofSweden | |
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| 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 | Majority(coalition) (2006–2010) 178 / 349 (51%) Minority(coalition) (2010–2014) 173 / 349 (49%) |
| History | |
| Elections | 2006 election 2010 election |
| Predecessor | Persson's cabinet |
| Successor | Löfven's cabinet |
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Thecabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt (Swedish:Regeringen Reinfeldt) was thecabinet ofSweden from 2006 to 2014. It was acoalition cabinet consisting of the four parties in thecentre-rightAlliance for Sweden: theModerate Party,Centre Party,Liberal People's Party and theChristian Democrats.
The cabinet was installed on 6 October 2006, following the2006 general election which ousted theSocial Democrats after twelve years in power. It retained power after the2010 general election as aminority government, and was the longest-serving consecutive non-social democratic government since the cabinet ofErik Gustaf Boström in 1900. It was led byPrime MinisterFredrik Reinfeldt of the Moderate Party.
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, theMinister of Foreign TradeMaria Borelius and theMinister for CultureCecilia 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 theirTV 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 theMinister 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 toProject Simoom.
In public opinion survey conducted byAftonbladet/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 DemocraticPersson cabinet ever received during its years in power, and the highest ratings ever since the surveys started in 1996.[17]
From the2006 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 thescandals and the performed practical politics.[citation needed]
| Preceded by | Cabinet of Sweden 2006–2014 | Succeeded by |
