Ulf Kristersson
| Ulf Kristersson | |
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Ulf Kristersson (2017)
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| Minister for Social Security | |
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In office 5 October 2010 – 3 October 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
| Preceded by | Cristina Husmark Pehrsson |
| Succeeded by | Annika Strandhäll |
| Chairman of the Moderate Youth League | |
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In office 1989–1992 |
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| Preceded by | Beatrice Ask |
| Succeeded by | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
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29 December 1963 Lund, Sweden |
| Political party | Moderate Party |
Ulf Hjalmar Kristersson (born 29 December 1963) is a Swedish Moderate Party politician who served as Minister for Social Security between 2010 and 2014. On 11 December 2014, he was appointed shadow Finance Minister of the Moderate Party and economic policy spokesperson.
Previously he was one of the vice mayors in . He was born in Skåne and grew up there and in Södermanland. After finishing secondary school at S:t Eskils gymnasium in Eskilstuna and completing a degree in economics at Uppsala University, he was elected chairman of the Moderate Youth League in 1988. When he stood for re-election the second time in 1992, he was opposed by Fredrik Reinfeldt, who is the former leader of the Moderate Party. The congress was preceded by considerable ideological divisions between Libertarians and Conservatives. All this erupted at the congress in Lycksele, which came to be known as The Battle of Lycksele. Kristersson, the Libertarian alternative, lost narrowly. On October 5, 2010 he became Minister for Social Security.
He was predicted as a future leader of the party before his loss. It is said that his loss caused his withdrawal from front-line politics and he was subsequently known as part of "Lost Generation" of the Moderate Party.
In 1991 Ulf Kristersson was elected to the Riksdag and served until 2000. He worked in the private sphere before being elected a Commissioner for Finance in Strängnäs in 2003. After the landslide for the centre-right Alliance in the Stockholm municipal election in 2006, Kristersson became vice mayor with responsible for social welfare and labour division.
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