Mona Sahlin
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Mona Ingeborg Sahlin (ˈmoːna saˈliːn née
NEE
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 Andersson; born 9 March 1957) is a Swedish
Sweden
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 politician
Politician
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 and the former leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party
Swedish Social Democratic Party
The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...

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Sahlin has been a Member of Parliament
Parliament of Sweden
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, representing Stockholm County
Stockholm County
Stockholm County is a county or län on the Baltic sea coast of Sweden. It borders Uppsala County and Södermanland County. It also borders Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. The city of Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. Stockholm County is divided by the historic provinces of Uppland and Södermanland...

, from 1982 to 1996 and again since 2002. She has also held various minister
Minister (government)
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ial posts in the Swedish government
Government of Sweden
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 from 1990 to 1991, from 1994 to 1995 and from 1998 to 2006. Sahlin was elected new leader of the Social Democratic Party on 17 March 2007, succeeding Göran Persson
Göran Persson
Hans Göran Persson was the Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007. Conceding defeat in the September 2006 general election, he announced that he would resign as party leader, and Mona Sahlin was elected to succeed him as...

 who resigned as leader following the defeat in the 2006 general election
Swedish general election, 2006
A general election was held in Sweden on 17 September 2006, to elect members to the Swedish parliament. All 349 seats were up for election: 310 "fixed seats" in 29 constituencies and 39 members at a national level for what are called "adjustment seats", used to ensure that parties have...

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Quotations

Swedes are so boring, we should get inspiration from the East. Islam could liven Sweden up.

Mona Sahlin, Euroturk, August 12, 2005.

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

Mona Sahlin in a speech to the Turkish youth organization Euroturk, March, 2002.

If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.

Mona Sahlin in Swedish television, September 8, 1994.

If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job.

Mona Sahlin in an interview with the Swedish newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, October 22, 2000.

But that has nothing to do with ethnicity. Who's by the way Swedish and who's an immigrant?

Mona Sahlin answers a question about increased crime and immigration in the Ungt val (eng. Young Election/Choice) section of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, March 15, 2002.

In other words, we have to stop this beaver woman before she's gnawn apart every welfare system we've got in our country.

Mona Sahlin about the leader of Centerpartiet, Maud Olofsson, in the Swedish radio program Ekot, September 10, 2006.

 
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