Per Bolund
MP
Per Bolund in June 2019
Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden
In office
5 February 2021 – 30 November 2021
Serving with Morgan Johansson
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
Prime MinisterStefan Löfven
Preceded byIsabella Lövin
Minister for the Environment
In office
5 February 2021 – 30 November 2021
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
Prime MinisterStefan Löfven
Preceded byIsabella Lövin
Succeeded byAnnika Strandhäll
Spokesperson of the Green Party
In office
4 May 2019 – 18 November 2023
Serving with
Isabella Lövin (2019–2021)
Märta Stenevi (2021–2023)
Preceded byGustav Fridolin
Succeeded byDaniel Helldén
Minister for Housing
In office
21 January 2019 – 5 February 2021
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
Prime MinisterStefan Löfven
Preceded byPeter Eriksson
Succeeded byMärta Stenevi
Minister for Financial Markets
In office
3 October 2014 – 5 February 2021
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
Prime MinisterStefan Löfven
Preceded byPeter Norman
Succeeded byÅsa Lindhagen
Minister for Housing and Urban Development
(acting)
In office
18 April 2016 – 25 May 2016
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
Prime MinisterStefan Löfven
Preceded byMehmet Kaplan
Succeeded byPeter Eriksson
Personal details
Born (1971-07-03) 3 July 1971
Stockholm, Sweden
Political partyGreen Party
ProfessionBiologist[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.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Per Bolund" (in Swedish). Riksdagen. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "Per Bolund" (in Swedish). Green Party. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "Per Bolund: Sweden's great Green pensions hope". Financial Times. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Sveriges Radio. "Direktrapport om Kaplans avgång" (in Swedish). Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  5. 1 2 "A Swiss pianist, a Rwandan chemist... meet 15 ministers brokering a deal in Glasgow". Climate Home News. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  6. ↑ Stockholm, Agencies in (24 November 2021). "Sweden's first female prime minister resigns after less than 12 hours". the Guardian. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  7. ↑ Riksdagsförvaltningen. "Per Bolund (MP) - Riksdagen". www.riksdagen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 November 2021.
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