Vice Prime Minister of Sweden

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The Swedish constitution of 1974 requires that the Prime Minister of Sweden appoints one of the Ministers in the cabinet as Vice Prime Minister, in case the Prime Minister for some reason is prevented from performing his or her duties. However, if a Vice Prime Minister has not been appointed, the Minister in the cabinet who has served the longest time (and if there are several with equal experience the one who is oldest) takes over as Head of Government.

Unlike other Vice Head of Governments, the Swedish Vice Prime Minister does not have any assignments and usually occupies another post in the cabinet. It also occurs that the Vice Prime Minister takes over some of the Prime Ministers duties temporarily, for instance when the Prime Minister is on holiday.

[edit] Vice Prime Ministers of Sweden

Nr:	Vice Prime Minster:	In office:	Party:	Prime Minister:
1	Gunnar Sträng	1975-1976	Social Democratic Party	Olof Palme
2	Per Ahlmark	1976-1978	Liberal People's Party	Thorbjörn Fälldin
3	Ola Ullsten*	1978	Liberal People's Party	Thorbjörn Fälldin
4	Sten Romanus	1978-1979	independent	Ola Ullsten
5	Ingemar Mundebo	1979-1980	Liberal People's Party	Thorbjörn Fälldin
6	Ola Ullsten	1980-1982	Liberal People's Party	Thorbjörn Fälldin
7	Ingvar Carlsson*	1982-1986	Social Democratic Party	Olof Palme
8	Svante Lundkvist	1986	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Carlsson
9	Kjell-Olof Feldt	1986-1990	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Carlsson
10	Lena Hjelm-Wallén	1990	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Carlsson
11	Odd Engström	1990-1991	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Carlsson
12	Bengt Westerberg	1991-1994	Liberal People's Party	Carl Bildt
13	Mona Sahlin	1994-1995	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Carlsson
14	Lena Hjelm-Wallén	1995-2002	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Carlsson and Göran Persson
15	Margareta Winberg	2002-2003	Social Democratic Party	Göran Persson
16	Marita Ulvskog	2003-2004	Social Democratic Party	Göran Persson
17	Lars Enqvist	2004	Social Democratic Party	Göran Persson
18	Laila Freivalds	2004	Social Democratic Party	Göran Persson
19	Bosse Ringholm	2004-2006	Social Democratic Party	Göran Persson
20	Maud Olofsson	2006-	Centre Party	Fredrik Reinfeldt
	* = Later Prime Minister