Hans Göran Persson is a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.
Persson in 2005
Persson at 5 years old in 1954
Prime Minister Göran Persson speaking at May Day event in 2006, at Norra Bantorget in Stockholm
Persson meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Stockholm, Sweden, 23 March 2001.
Swedish Social Democratic Party
The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, usually referred to as The Social Democrats, is a centre-left social-democratic and democratic socialist political party in Sweden. Globally, it is a full member of the Progressive Alliance and the Party of European Socialists.
Hjalmar Branting, the first elected SAP Prime Minister in 1920
Prime Minister Tage Erlander at a TV debate in 1967
Social Democratic leader and Prime Minister Olof Palme in the 1970s
Göran Persson, a prolific Social Democratic leader, holding the office of Prime Minister for ten years