Speaker of the Riksdag
Appearance
Speaker of the Riksdag
Riksdagens talman | |
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The Riksdag | |
Style | Script error: The function "langx" does not exist. (English: "Mr Speaker") |
Seat | Parliament House |
Nominator | Riksdag |
Appointer | The Alderman |
Term length | Four years (de facto) |
Inaugural holder | Henry Allard |
Formation | 1617 |
Deputy | See List of Deputy Speakers |
Salary | 2,112,000 kr annually[1] |
Website | www |
The speaker of the Riksdag is the presiding officer of the national unicameral legislature in Sweden.
Since 1975, the speaker, and no longer the monarch, appoints and fires the prime minister.
The current speaker is Andreas Norlén, who has held the gavel since September 2018.[2]
List (since 1971)
[change | change source]Portrait | Speaker (Born-Died) |
Term | Political Party | Election | Constituency | |||
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Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||||
Henry Allard (1911–1996) | 15 January 1971 | 1 October 1979 | 8 years, 259 days | Social Democrats | 1970 1973 1976 | Örebro County | ||
Ingemund Bengtsson (1919–2000) | 1 October 1979 | 3 October 1988 | 9 years, 2 days | Social Democrats | 1979 1982 1985 | Halland County | ||
Thage G. Peterson (born 1933) | 3 October 1988 | 30 September 1991 | 2 years, 362 days | Social Democrats | 1988 | Stockholm County | ||
Ingegerd Troedsson (1929–2012) | 30 September 1991 | 3 October 1994 | 3 years, 3 days | Moderate | 1991 | Uppsala County | ||
Birgitta Dahl (1937–2024) | 3 October 1994 | 30 September 2002 | 7 years, 362 days | Social Democrats | 1994 1998 | Uppsala County | ||
Björn von Sydow (born 1945) | 30 September 2002 | 2 October 2006 | 4 years, 2 days | Social Democrats | 2002 | Stockholm County | ||
Per Westerberg (born 1951) | 2 October 2006 | 29 September 2014 | 7 years, 362 days | Moderate | 2006 2010 | Södermanland County | ||
Urban Ahlin (born 1964) | 29 September 2014 | 24 September 2018 | 3 years, 360 days | Social Democrats | 2014 | Västra Götaland County | ||
Andreas Norlén (born 1973) | 24 September 2018 | Incumbent | 6 years, 70 days | Moderate | 2018 2022 | Östergötland County |
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Frågor & svar samt statistik över ledamöternas arvoden" (in Swedish). Riksdag. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
- ↑ "Andreas Norlén Elected Speaker of the Riksdag". Publicnow. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.