Gabriel Wikström
| Gabriel Wikström | |
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| Minister for Public Health, Healthcare and Sports | |
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Assumed office 3 October 2014 | |
| Monarch | Carl XVI Gustaf |
| Prime Minister | Stefan Löfven |
| Preceded by | Göran Hägglund |
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| Born | February 21, 1985 |
| Political party | Social Democrats |
Per Johan Gabriel Wikström (born 21 February 1985) is a Swedish politician of the Social Democrats. He has been Minister for Public Health, Healthcare and Sports in the Swedish Government since 2014.
Wikström started his career in the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League in Västmanland County in 2006. He was a member of the national executive board of the youth league from 2007 to 2011 and national chairman[1] from 2011 until being appointed cabinet minister in 2014.
As national chairman, Wikström confronted the Social Democrats leadership by pushing a proposal of a 90-day warranty for young unemployed people through the Social Democrats Congress in 2013.[2] The proposal was rejected by the party leadership, but gained hearing by the Congress delegates and is now one of the Löfven cabinet's key reforms since taking office in 2014, although it has not been implemented or announced yet (as of August 2016).
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| Preceded by Göran Hägglund |
Minister for Public Health, Healthcare and Sports 2014–present |
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