Magdalena Andersson, who last week was Sweden’s first female prime minister for a few hours before resigning because a budget defeat made a coalition partner quit, was elected again on Monday as the Nordic nation’s head of government.  

In a speech to parliament, Center Party leader Annie Loof said a female prime minister “means a lot to many girls and women, to see this glass roof shattered. I am proud that (the Center Party) is involved and makes this possible.” Her party abstain from voting for or against Andersson, paving the way for her election.

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Who is Magdalena Andersson? 

Born on 23rd January, 2021 at Vaksala Forsamling, Magdalena Andersson was a former swimming champion at her university. She studied social sciences in her high school at Cathedral School in Uppsala. Later on she went to Stockholm School of Economics to pursue her higher education. After working as a doctoral student at the same school, she went to study at Harvard in 1995. 

After completing her studies in economics, Magdalena was appointed as the political advisor at the Prime Minister’s office from 1996-1998. She, later on, became the director of planning from 1998-2004.  She then worked as Secretary of State under the Ministry of Finance till 2006. After this, she again became a political advisor from 2007 to 2009 but soon after left this position when the Government of Sweden nominated her to become the Director of the Swedish Tax Agency. She resigned this position in 2012, after she became a Social Democratic candidate for the 2014 elections. 

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After the 2014 elections, Adderson became a part of the Riksdag, where she was appointed as the Minister of Finance by  Stefan Lofven, the then Prime Minister. After August 2021, when Stefan Lofven announced that he would resign from as the party leader for the Social Democratic Party, Adersson was instantly seen as an eligible candidate.

 Before Magdalena Andersson resigned as Sweden’s first female Prime Minister, she was the only female to have been appointed as the PM of any Nordic state.