Mona Sahlin

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Mona Ingeborg Sahlin (Swedish pronunciation: [môna sahlin] née Andersson, born 9 March 1957), is a Swedish politician who served as the leader of the opposition and party leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011.

Sahlin served in Parliament from 1982 to 1996, then again from 2002 to 2011. She has served in cabinet ministerial positions from 1990 to 1991, as well as from 1998 to 2006. Following the loss of the 2006 general election, Sahlin was elected as the head of the Social Democratic Party on March 17, 2007, replacing Göran Persson who resigned as leader after the defeat in the 2006 general election. Sahlin was Sweden's first female leader, and she became the first female leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party since Claes Tholin in 1907 to leave office without having served as Prime Minister of Sweden. Hkan Juholt, her replacement, joined her in 2012 as the second living person to do so. Following yet another electoral loss for the Social Democrats, she declared on October 14 that she would resign as party chair, as she did in early 2011.

Youth and education

Mona Ingeborg Andersson was born in Sollefte, Sweden's Västernor County, Sweden. Hans Andersson's father taught at youth care facilities in the community. The family migrated to Järla, Stockholm County, where they remained in the mid-1960s. Her father became an advisor to former Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson.

Sahlin formed the Swedish "Barbie Club" in 1964 at the age of seven. She also loved soccer and music as a child. In the search for the song to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969, Sahlin was selected as one of the back-up singers to Jan Malmsjö. Benny Andersson and Lasse Berghagen wrote the song, and it finished in second place.

Sahlin attended Nacka Samskola and Södra Latin in Stockholm and completed secondary school in 1977. She served as Vice Chairperson of the Swedish Pupils' Union from 1976 to 1977. She began working for a private business and later as a trade union representative for the Swedish National Union of State Employees.

Personal life

Mona Sahlin has one brother and two sisters. Janne Andersson, the pop band Japop's former lead singer, is the former lead singer and owns his own production firm. Lena Ridemar is the Chief of Staff at the Tenants' Union.

Bo Sahlin, a feminist who later became the CEO of AiP Media Produktion AB in 2006, married her in 1982. Jenny (b. ): The couple have three children: Jenny (b. ) Gustav (b. ): Gustav (b. 1983) Gustav (b. Johan, 1989), and Johan, who died after ten months as a result of heart failure. Ann-Sofie is also a child of a previous friendship with a man named David Pea.

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Political career

Sahlin joined the Viet Cong's Swedish support group at the age of 13. Sahlin's political career began in 1976 in Nacka, Sweden, at the age of 16. This was during the Vietnam War, but Sahlin had joined the Swedish FNL already as a 13-year-old Sahlin.

Sahlin was elected to the Riksdag as the youngest member of parliament at the time in 1982, during the Swedish general election. Sahlin became Minister of Labor in 1990, but after the Social Democrats lost office in the 1991 election, she took over as chairman of the Riksdag's Committee on the Labour Market and as a spokesperson for the Social Democrats on labour market issues. She served as the party secretary from 1992 to 1994. During this time, she openly condemned government reforms, particularly those regarding social care and workers' rights, arguing that they must be reversed. When the Social Democrats regained power in 1994, she resigned as Minister of Gender Equality and Deputy Prime Minister.

Following an inquiry led by Christian Democratic Spanish-Swedish Public Auditor Carlos Medina Rebolledo, Sahlin, who was then serving as the prime minister and was widely seen as the leading contender to replace Ingvar Carlsson as Prime Minister, was charged more than 50,000 Swedish kronor for personal expenses on her working charge card, which was only for business expenses. She confessed to buying groceries with a Government credit card. She confessed to not paying 19 parking tickets and several bills for her children's day care on time. She apologised in a Stockholm newspaper later. As a result of the transactions, the chief prosecutor Jan Danielsson's preliminary probe was launched, but it was closed in early 1996 when it came to the conclusion that there was no misconduct. She eventually paid the bills (as well as an additional 15,000 kronor) to the Treasury, but not before. Due to the inclusion of Toblerone bars on the credit card statement, the controversy was dubbed the "Toblerone affair."

Sahlin worked as both a proprietor of a small business and as a television journalist from 1996 to 1997. She was elected chair of the European Council Against Racism in 1997 and 1998, she became the head of Bommersvik's Social Democratic youth education academy.

Sahlin returned to national politics in 1998, but then Prime Minister Göran Persson appointed her as Minister Without Portfolio. She served in the Ministry of Industry, Education, and Communication from 1998 to 2004, then as the "Minister for Democracy and Integration" in the Ministry of Justice from 2002 to 2004, and as the Minister for Sustainable Development from 2004 to 2006. She was the Social Democratic Minister in 2004 for integration of refugees, and her public positions indicated her opposition to upcoming restrictions on asylum seekers, who claimed that all refugees entering Sweden must have the same rights and obligations.

Göran Persson resigned as the party's leader on the night following the 2006 electoral defeat. Mona Sahlin was portrayed as a potential replacement, but not as the most likely candidate. Both Margot Wallström and Carin Jämtin received more clout among local and regional party groups. Ulrica Messing was also listed as a potential candidate. Wallström, Jämtin, and Messing announced that they did not stand for the post but instead praised Sahlin, leaving Mona Sahlin as the only serious candidate. She was officially requested by the party's Election Committee on January 18th to serve as the party's leader and accepted. She was unanimously elected at the extra party congress in Stockholm on March 17th.

Support for Sweden's new center-right government had fallen sharply in the polls in January 2007, showing the left bloc (including the Green Party) had much more support. Mona Sahlin, the leader of the country's largest opposition party, was given the opportunity to lead the opposition against Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. However, the support had waned by April 2009, when a Demoskop poll published in Expressen showed that the four-party Alliance gained 51% voter support, but the Sahlin-led opposition had 45.2 percent. According to a Sifo poll released later this month, only 27 percent of Swedes were secure or highly confident in her leadership skills, whereas Reinfeldt's public confidence was at 60%.

Mona Sahlin is often portrayed as a scion of the party's more moderate members, and a number of left-wing party members have slammed her candidature for party leader. In January 2007, Wanja Lundby-Wedin, the chairman of the Trade Union Confederation, expressed complete support for Sahlin as well as several key party districts around the region. One of her key initiatives was the establishment of the Red-Green coalition of the Social Democrats and the Green Party in order to combat the movement to eliminate the social welfare system and privatize state-owned assets.

The Social Democratic Party gained 24.41 percent of the votes in the 2005 election to the European Parliament, Sahlin's first election as the party leader – but it was marginally smaller than the 2004 election, in which the party gained 24.56 percent). The result was the lowest for the Social Democratic Camp since the introduction of universal suffrage in Sweden in 1921. "If there isn't a plus in front of our figures, it's a huge loss," Sahlin said in a remark made during the campaign on May 12: "If there isn't a plus in front of our figures is a deep disappointment."

She led the Social Democratic Party in the 2010 election, where she failed to depose Fredrik Reinfeldt as Prime Minister. The Social Democrats received the lowest recorded percentage of the country's lowest turnout in 2010 but they were still Sweden's largest party by a small margin. On March 25, 2011, she resigned as the party's second leader after serving as Prime Minister.

"Many Swedes are jealous of immigrants," Sahlin said at a Swedish mosque in 2005, something that unites them together. "Swedes have only Midsummer Night and other amusing things." Cultural self-denial, according to Karen Jespersen, a former Danish Minister of Integration, "would not be more monstrous and ghastly." Sahlin, the terrorist leader of violent extremism in Brussels, maintained in an op-ed that such atrocities were not the responsibility of the terrorists themselves but also of Islam critics whose remarks in online chat rooms, in comment sections, and on social media "give the militants their nourishment." Jenny Sonesson, a commentator, called for her to be fired from her position, saying she "knows nothing about Islam." Sakine Madon wrote in Expressen, also chastising Sahlin for refusing to investigate the truth of jihadism.

Sahlin resigned as Sweden's national coordinator against violence-embracing extremism on May 5th, 2016 after the newspaper Expressen revealed that she lied about her bodyguard's salary in order to assist him in getting a mortgage. The bodyguard had a monthly salary of 43 000 SEK, but Mona Sahlin wrote a confirmation letter claiming that he received a 120 000 SEK check. When confronted with the issue, she made a mistaken assumption that she had paid the difference out of her own pocket before retracting the claim after Expressen discovered it to be inaccurate. The media highlighted similarities with the so-called Toblerone case of the 1990s, where Sahlin was discovered using her government credit card to pay for personal expenses and then avoiding the subject when confronted.

Sahlin was found guilty of tax evasion in November 2017. She had failed to declare 106.193 kronor in 2015, despite being unable to publish 151,072 kronor in writing and lecturing, and in 2016 she had failed to post 106.193 kronor in 2015. She was fined 23,000 kronors.

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