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Hans Göran Persson is a Swedish former politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and as Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007. Since 2019, he has se
Persson in 2026
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.
The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, usually referred to as The Social Democrats, is a social democratic political party in Sweden. The party is
Göran Persson
…Hans Göran Persson (Swedish: ; born 20 January 1949) is a Swedish former politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and as Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007. Since 2019, he has served as chairman of the banking group Swedbank. Persson was first elected to the Riksdag for Södermanland County…
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