Per Bolund

Per Bolund
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Per Bolund in June 2019
Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden
(honorary title)
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
Assumed office
4 May 2019
Serving with
Isabella Lövin (2019–2021)
Märta Stenevi (2021– )
Preceded byGustav Fridolin
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 (age 51)
Stockholm, Sweden
Political partyGreen Party
ProfessionBiologist

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 since May 2019.

He previously served as Minister for Financial Markets from October 2014 to February 2021 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.

Bolund was elected to the Riksdag in 2006. As Minister for the Environment he made a pledge to double Sweden's climate finance. 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.

Before politics he trained as a biologist, and his parents are the Aarhus University geneticist Professor Lars Bolund and medical Professor Christina Bolund. In his personal time he is a fan of baseball and football, and follows the Stockholm club AIK Fotboll.


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