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Lars Leijonborg

Swedish politician (born 1949)

Summary

Swedish politician (born 1949)

Field	Value
name	Lars Leijonborg
image	Lars Leijonborg, partiledare Folkpartiet liberalerna, Sverige (Bilden ar tagen vid Nordiska radets session i Oslo, 2003).jpg
caption	Lars Leijonborg during the session of the Nordic Council in Oslo, Norway in October 2003
office	Minister for Higher Education and Research
primeminister	Fredrik Reinfeldt
term_start	12 September 2007
term_end	17 June 2009
predecessor	Office established
successor	Tobias Krantz
office3	Minister for Education
primeminister3	Fredrik Reinfeldt
term_start3	6 October 2006
term_end3	12 September 2007
predecessor3	Leif Pagrotsky
successor3	Jan Björklund
office4	Leader of the Liberal People's Party
term_start4	15 March 1997
term_end4	7 September 2007
predecessor4	Maria Leissner
successor4	Jan Björklund
birth_date
birth_place	Täby, Sweden
party	Liberal People's Party

Lars Erik Ansgar Leijonborg (born 21 November 1949) is a Swedish politician, Minister for Higher Education and Research 2006-2009 and Head of the Ministry of Education and Research 2006–2007. During a ten-year period from 1997 to 2007, he served as chairman of the Liberal People's Party ().

He announced on 11 June 2009 that he would be leaving the Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt as soon as a successor was appointed. He was replaced by Tobias Krantz on 17 June 2009.

Biography

Lars Leijonborg grew up in Solna north of Stockholm.{{cite web |url-status=dead

In the 1998 parliamentary elections, Folkpartiet received 4.7% of the vote, just above the 4% threshold for parliamentary representation. It was the worst election result the party had seen since World War I. Even within the party, Leijonborg's position was questioned by many. The youth organisation he once headed openly called for his resignation. Despite the internal opposition, he managed to hold on to his position. And when, in the campaign before the 2002 parliamentary elections, the party suddenly surged after launching a proposal on making a Swedish language test one of the requirements for a naturalized Swedish citizenship, Leijonborg was nicknamed "the Lion King" (Leijonkungen) in the tabloids. The election result, 13.3%, was a success for the party and for Leijonborg personally, but since the party's centre-right partners failed to gain ground, the Social Democrats could remain in government. In 2006 the party was a part of the Alliance for Sweden, which won the election, although after a scandal where members of the party had hacked into a rival party's computer network, the Liberal Party lost almost six percentage points compared to the 2002 election, getting a total of 7.5% of the votes.

On 6 October 2006 Lars Leijonborg was made Minister for Education and Research in the Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt. On 16 October 2006, Leijonborg temporarily took over the responsibilities for Minister for Culture Cecilia Stegö Chilò, who resigned that day.{{cite news |url-status = dead

Leijonborg announced his resignation as party leader on 23 April 2007.{{cite news

Leijonborg is a member of the congregationalist Mission Covenant Church of Sweden ().

Bibliography

Liberal feminism (2001)
Liberala perspektiv i svenskt samhällsliv : 1967, 2007 och 2017 (2007)

References

(16 September 2002). "Jubel för Leijonkungen". Svenska Dagbladet.
(16 September 2002). "Press cool on Swedish re-election". [[BBC News]].
[http://www.folkpartiet.se/FPTemplates/AreaContentPage____43809.aspx Christian Liberals – Folkpartiet]

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