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Bo Lundgren
Bo Lundgren

Bo Axel Magnus Lundgren (born July 11, 1947) is a Swedish politician. He is the former leader of the Moderate Party. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (519x696, 32 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Bo Lundgren Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (519x696, 32 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Bo Lundgren Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... The Moderate Unity Party (in Swedish: Moderata samlingspartiet, commonly referred to as Moderaterna) is a liberal conservative party in Sweden. ...


Lundgren was born in Kristianstad in Skåne. Between 1991 and 1994, he served as Deputy Minister of Finance with special responsibility for taxation. He was also Minister for Sport. Kristianstad is a municipality and city in Scania in southernmost Sweden. ... â–¶ (help· info) (also known as Scania) is the southernmost historical province (landskap) of Sweden. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...


He was elected party leader by the 1999 party congress, succeeding Carl Bildt, but resigned only four years later, following poor results in the Swedish parliamentary election, 2002. He was generally considered as a politician with a little too much emphasis on budget numbers and specific tax cuts, which might have contributed to the partys low vote fall-out that year. He was criticised for promising to cut taxes by 130 billion SEK. Göran Persson caused much problems to Lundgren during the campaign by repeating "130 billion" in the debates. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... (help· info) (born July 15, 1949) is a Swedish politician, diplomat and nobleman. ... Results of the general election to the Riksdag, the parliament of Sweden, held Sunday September 15, 2002. ... The word billion and its equivalents in other languages refer to one of two different numbers, depending on whether the writer is using the long or short scale. ... SEK may stand for Swedish Krona - the currency of Sweden Spezialeinsatzkommando - the German special police forces ... Hans Göran Persson ( (help· info); born January 20, 1949) is a Swedish politician. ...


Bo Lundgren was succeeded by Fredrik Reinfeldt. He is still respected among Moderates for his principled stand on issues as a leader, especially since Fredrik Reinfeldt has been pursuing more centrist policies. Fredrik Reinfeldt Fredrik John Reinfeldt (born August 4, 1965) is a Swedish politician and the current leader of the Swedish liberal conservative Moderate Party (Moderata samlingspartiet). ... In politics, centrism usually refers to the political ideal of promoting moderate policies which land in the middle ground between different political extremes. ...

Preceded by:
Carl Bildt
Leader of the Swedish Moderate Party
1999–2003
Succeeded by:
Fredrik Reinfeldt

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Aftonbladet: För tungt ansvar för Bo Lundgren (475 words)
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CNN.com - Victory for Sweden's ruling party - September 15, 2002 (405 words)
Conservative leader Bo Lundgren conceded defeat in a speech Sunday night, but said he is not considering leaving the leadership of the Moderates even though his party lost eight percentage points.
Swedish voters bucked a recent European trend that has seen center-left governments defeated at the polls by the conservative opposition in such key European Union nations as France, Italy, and the Netherlands.
Lundgren led the opposition in a campaign dominated by the themes of privatization and tax reduction, strong issues in a country famed for its welfare state -- financed by some of the world's highest taxes -- and vast public-sector economy.
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