Swedish governmental line of succession

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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 Deputy Prime Minister (also inofficially known as "Vice Prime Minister"), in case the Prime Minister for some reason is prevented from performing his or her duties. However, if a Deputy 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.

[edit] Present succession

	Name	Party	Current Title	Served Since	Born
Incumbent	Fredrik Reinfeldt	Moderate Party	Prime Minister	2006	1965
1	Maud Olofsson	Centre Party	Deputy Prime Minister	2006	1955
2	Cristina Husmark Pehrsson	Moderate Party	Minister for Social Insurance	2006	1947
3	Mats Odell	Christian Democrats	Minister for Local Government	2006	1947
4	Carl Bildt	Moderate Party	Minister for Foreign Affairs	2006	1949
5	Lars Leijonborg	Liberal People's Party	Minister for Science and Higher Education	2006	1949
6	Maria Larsson	Christian Democrats	Minister for Public Health	2006	1956
7	Beatrice Ask	Moderate Party	Minister for Justice	2006	1956
8	Eskil Erlandsson	Centre Party	Minister for Agriculture	2006	1957
9	Åsa Torstensson	Centre Party	Minister for Infrastructure	2006	1958
10	Andreas Carlgren	Centre Party	Minister for the Environment	2006	1958
11	Göran Hägglund	Christian Democrats	Minister for Social Affairs	2006	1959
12	Jan Björklund	Liberal People's Party	Minister for Education	2006	1962
13	Gunilla Carlsson	Moderate Party	Minister for International Development	2006	1963
14	Sven Otto Littorin	Moderate Party	Minister for Employment	2006	1966
15	Anders Borg	Moderate Party	Minister for Finance	2006	1968
16	Cecilia Malmström	Liberal People's Party	Minister for EU Affairs	2006	1968
17	Nyamko Sabuni	Liberal People's Party	Minister for Integration	2006	1969
18	Tobias Billström	Moderate Party	Minister for Migration	2006	1973
19	Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth	Moderate Party	Minister for Culture	2006	1955
20	Sten Tolgfors	Moderate Party	Minister for Defence	2006	1966
21	Ewa Björling	Moderate Party	Minister for Foreign Trade	2007	1961
	Per Westerberg	Moderate Party	Speaker of the Riksdag	2006	1951