Election Guide 2002 - Sweden.se
Election Guide 2002 - Sweden.se
Election Guide 2002 - Sweden.se
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Bo Lundgren<br />
MP, Chairman of the Moderate Party of<br />
<strong>Sweden</strong>, former Minister for Fiscal and<br />
Financial Affairs<br />
Born 11th July 11, 1947 in Kristianstad,<br />
<strong>Sweden</strong><br />
B.Sc. in Business Administration, University<br />
of Lund<br />
Family<br />
Wife Charlotte, née Hagren, son Henrik,<br />
born 1997, and daughter Katarina, born<br />
2000<br />
Politics<br />
Since his election to the Riksdag in 1976,<br />
Bo Lundgren has mainly worked with<br />
taxation and economic policy on the<br />
committees on taxation and finance and<br />
on <strong>se</strong>veral governmental committees. He<br />
was deputy member of the Board of<br />
Governors of the Swedish Central Bank<br />
(the Riksbank) in the mid-eighties. In<br />
1991, he was appointed Minister for<br />
Fiscal and Financial Affairs, and as such<br />
was responsible for bringing <strong>Sweden</strong> out<br />
of the deep crisis in the financial <strong>se</strong>ctor<br />
after the speculation bubble of the eighties.<br />
After leaving government in 1994, Bo<br />
Lundgren returned to the Riksdag and<br />
became party spokesman on economic<br />
affairs. In 1999, he was elected Chairman<br />
of the Moderate Party, which is the main<br />
opposition party in <strong>Sweden</strong>.<br />
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