Per Bolund | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden |
Term Start: | 5 February 2021 |
Term End: | 30 November 2021 |
Primeminister: | Stefan Löfven |
Predecessor: | Isabella Lövin |
Alongside: | Morgan Johansson |
Office1: | Minister for the Environment |
Term Start1: | 5 February 2021 |
Term End1: | 30 November 2021 |
Primeminister1: | Stefan Löfven |
Predecessor1: | Isabella Lövin |
Monarch1: | Carl XVI Gustaf |
Successor1: | Annika Strandhäll |
Office2: | Spokesperson of the Green Party |
Term Start2: | 4 May 2019 |
Term End2: | 18 November 2023 |
Predecessor2: | Gustav Fridolin |
Successor2: | Daniel Helldén |
Alongside2: | Isabella Lövin (2019–2021) Märta Stenevi (2021–2023) |
Office3: | Minister for Housing |
Term Start3: | 21 January 2019 |
Term End3: | 5 February 2021 |
Primeminister3: | Stefan Löfven |
Monarch3: | Carl XVI Gustaf |
Predecessor3: | Peter Eriksson |
Successor3: | Märta Stenevi |
Office4: | Minister for Financial Markets |
Term Start4: | 3 October 2014 |
Term End4: | 5 February 2021 |
Primeminister4: | Stefan Löfven |
Predecessor4: | Peter Norman |
Monarch4: | Carl XVI Gustaf |
Successor4: | Åsa Lindhagen |
Office5: | Minister for Housing and Urban Development (acting) |
Term Start5: | 18 April 2016 |
Term End5: | 25 May 2016 |
Primeminister5: | Stefan Löfven |
Monarch5: | Carl XVI Gustaf |
Predecessor5: | Mehmet Kaplan |
Successor5: | Peter Eriksson |
Birth Date: | 3 July 1971 |
Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Party: | Green Party |
Spouse: | Åse Ahlstrand |
Children: | 3 |
Profession: | Biologist[1] |
Per Bolund (born 3 July 1971) is a Swedish politician for the Green Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden (in a strictly ceremonial role) and as Minister for the Environment from February to November 2021, and has been co-spokesperson of the Green Party from May 2019[2] until his resignation in November 2023.
He previously served as Minister for Financial Markets from October 2014 to February 2021[3] and as Minister for Housing from January 2019 to February 2021. He was shortly acting Minister for Housing and Urban Development from April to May 2016.[4]
Bolund was elected to the Riksdag in 2006. As Minister for the Environment he made a pledge to double Sweden's climate finance.[5] As leader of the Green Party his withdrawal of support helped bring down the government of Magdalena Andersson in November 2021 because the planned tax cut on petrol in her first budget would lead to higher emissions.[6]
Before politics he trained as a biologist, and his parents are the Aarhus University geneticist Professor Lars Bolund and medical Professor Christina Bolund.[7] In his personal time he is a fan of baseball and football, and follows the Stockholm club AIK Fotboll.
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