Håkan Juholt Politician

Håkan Juholt (born 16 September 1962) is a Swedish politician who was Leader of the Social Democrats from 2011 to 2012. He has been a member of the Swedish parliament since 1994, representing Kalmar län.He is a native of Oskarshamn, a town of 17,000 on the Baltic Sea and the site of a nuclear power plant. His father worked in Oskarshamn as a printer and was a union man. His maternal grandfather was the artist Arvid Källström (1893–1967). After finishing grammar school (en‑GB) / high school (en‑US), he was hired in 1980 as a photographer and journalist for the Social Democratic Kalmar newspaper Östra Småland (Östran), where he is still formally employed but on leave since elected to parliament in 1994. In the early 1980s, he reported for the newspaper from the Solidarity movement in Poland.

Personal facts

Håkan Juholt
Birth dateSeptember 16, 1962
Birth place
Kalmar County , Oskarshamn Municipality

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Politician

office
Member of the Riksdag
Chairman of the Swedish Defence Committee
Member of the Swedish Defence Committee
Chairman of the Swedish Social Democratic Worker's Party
party
Swedish Social Democratic Party
prime minister
region
Kalmar County
successor

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