Per-Ola Eriksson is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 politician

Politician

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. He is a member of the Centre Party

Centre Party (Sweden)

The Centre Party is a centrist political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden and describes itself as "a green social liberal party". The ideology is sometimes called agrarian, but in a European context, the Centre Party can perhaps best be characterized as social...

. Eriksson was a member of the Parliament of Sweden

Parliament of Sweden

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 from 1982 to 1998, and held the key post as chairman of the Committee on Finance

Committee on Finance (Parliament of Sweden)

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 from 1991 to 1994, when his party was part of the coalition forming Cabinet of Carl Bildt

Cabinet of Carl Bildt

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, which did not have a parliamentary majority on its own. He was director general of Nutek from 1999 to 2002, and became county governor

County governor

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 of Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County is the northernmost county or län of Sweden. It borders Västerbotten County to the southwest, the Gulf of Bothnia to the southeast. It also borders the counties of Nordland and Troms in Norway to the northwest, and Lapland Province in Finland to the northeast.The name...

in 2003.