Cristina Maria Husmark Pehrsson (born 15 April 1947) is Swedish

Sweden

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 politician

Politician

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 and a member of the Moderate Party

Moderate Party

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. She is a trained Nurse, and is married with three children. She has been a Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 since 1998. On 6 October 2006 she was selected to become Minister for Social Security in the Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt

Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt

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She is the current chairman of the Nordic Council. In 2010 she was replaces as Minister for Social Security by Ulf Kristersson

Ulf Kristersson

Ulf Hjalmar Kristersson is a Swedish Moderate Party politician and one of the vice mayors in Stockholm. He was born in Skåne and grew up there and in Södermanland. After finishing secondary school at S:t Eskils gymnasium in Eskilstuna and completing a degree in economics at Uppsala University, he...

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External links

• Cristina Husmark Pehrsson at the Riksdag
  Parliament of Sweden
  The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...
  
   website
• Cristina Husmark Pehrsson at the Moderate Party
  Moderate Party
  The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament...
  
   website