Kent Härstedt

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kent Härstedt
Kent Härstedt
Incumbent
Assumed office 
1998
Constituency Skåne County west
Born 1965
Helsingborg, Sweden
Political party Swedish Social Democratic Party
Children son Joel
Residence Helsingborg, Sweden
Occupation writer, journalist
Website Kent Härstedt

Kent Härstedt (1965 –) is a Swedish social democratic politician, member of the Riksdag since the Swedish general election, 1998.[1]

Actively interested in politics since the age of 16, he was elected to the municipal council of Helsingborg, where he remained for six years. He worked as political adviser to vice foreign minister Pierre Schori between 1994 and 1996, and as a freelance writer for amongst others Svenska Dagbladet, Helsingborgs Dagblad and Arbetarebladet. In 1998 he was elected to the Riksdag and still remains there. In 2004 and 2005, he was also alcohol commissioner for the Swedish government.[2]

Between 1999 and 2005, he was the chairman of the Swedish branch of UNICEF.[2]

Härstedt is a survivor of the MS Estonia disaster in 1994.[3]

[edit] Report as alcohol commissioner

In March 2005, Härstedt - alcohol commissioner on behalf of the Swedish government - in his report Gränslös utmaning - alkoholpolitik i ny tid proposed that the wine- and beer-taxes should be lowered by 30%, and that more resources should be allocated to information and other preventive measures.[4] The report and Härstedt's proposals provoked an angry reaction from Sweden's leading temperance organization, IOGT-NTO and its chairman Sven-Olov Carlsson, who claimed that the only effect of lowering taxes was that people would drink more, and that while preventive measures are important they have never had an effect comparable to high prices.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ (Swedish) Riksdagen: Kent Härstedt (s). Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
  2. ^ a b (Swedish) Kent Härstedt: Personligt / Om mig. Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
  3. ^ (Swedish) Karin Thunberg. "Tio år efter Estonia", Svenska Dagbladet, 2004-09-36. Retrieved on 2008-02-24. 
  4. ^ (Swedish) Staffan Kihlström. "Förslag sänka öl- och vinskatten med 30 procent", Dagens Nyheter, 2005-03-16. Retrieved on 2007-02-16. 
  5. ^ (Swedish) "Farligt spel, Härstedt", IOGT-NTO, 2005-03-16. Retrieved on 2007-02-16. 

[edit] External links



Persondata
NAME Kent Härstedt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Swedish social democratic politician from Skåne County, member of the Riksdag (Parliament) since 1998.
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
 This article about a Swedish politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Languages