Anna Kinberg Batra MP |
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Leader of the Opposition | |
Assumed office 10 January 2015 |
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Monarch | Carl XVI Gustaf |
Prime Minister | Stefan Löfven |
Preceded by | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Leader of the Moderate Party | |
Assumed office 10 January 2015 |
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Deputy | Peter Danielsson |
Party Secretary | Tomas Tobé |
Preceded by | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Leader of the Moderate Party in the Riksdag | |
In office 4 October 2010 – 14 January 2015 |
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Leader | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Preceded by | Lars Lindblad |
Succeeded by | Jessica Polfjärd |
Member of the Riksdag | |
Assumed office 17 September 2006 |
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Constituency | |
Personal details | |
Born |
Anna Maria Kinberg 14 April 1970 Skärholmen, Sweden |
Political party | Moderate Party |
Spouse(s) | David Batra |
Children | 1 |
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Anna Maria Kinberg Batra (Swedish pronunciation: [²an.na ²ɕɪn.bærj ˈbɑːtra]; née Kinberg, born 14 April 1970) is a Swedish Moderate Party politician who has been Leader of Moderate Party and Leader of the Opposition since January 2015. She has been a Member of the Riksdag for since 2006.
She was chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs from 2007 to 2010 and chairman of the Committee on Finance from 2010 to 2014.
On 9 December 2014, the Moderate Party's nomination committee nominated Anna Kinberg Batra to succeed Fredrik Reinfeldt as party leader. She was elected to the position at the party congress on 10 January 2015.
Anna Kinberg was born in Skärholmen. In 1974 Kinberg and her family moved to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as her father worked for Merrill Lynch's Amsterdam office. Kinberg Batra speaks fluent Dutch after her years in the country. They moved back to Sweden in 1980, settling in Djursholm where Kinberg Batra spent the rest of upbringing. She is a graduate from the . She has also studied foreign languages and political science at . She was active in student politics as chairman of the , and as the first female chairman of the Moderate Youth League in .