HÃ¥kan Juholt

Håkan Juholt ( born September 16, 1962 in Oskarshamn ) is a Swedish politician and served from March 2011 to January 2012 Chairman of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden (SAP).

Juholt joined as a teenager in the footsteps of his artistically talented and politically ambitious father, who worked as a graphic artist in the 1970s and held the office of Mayor of Oskarshamn. In grammar school Juholt opted for the social profile and was selected thanks to its self-confident, assertive appearance as chairman of the student council. His first income he scored as selbsterlernter photographer and journalist for the local newspaper Nyheterna. The early membership in the Swedish Young Socialists opened up for Juholt many opportunities nationally and even internationally to engage politically. His main interest was in the liberation movement in Nicaragua and the Polish Solidarity.

In 1984 Juholts political rise its start when he was elected head of the Association of Swedish Social Democratic Youth League. The only higher posts in the SAP youth organization had then held Anna Lindh, who was traded until her assassination in 2003 as a future party leader of the Social Democrats. Juholt moved in 1994 to the Reichstag, where he specialized in defense policy. Many years he held both the chair of the defense committee, as well as the Defence Commission. In 2004 he was appointed one of the deputy party secretaries of the SAP. Behind the party leaders Göran Persson - between 1996 and 2006 Swedish Prime Minister - and Mona Sahlin - which failed to govern with the Social Democrats - remained Juholt a rather paler politicians with emblematic additional offices held: So he led the party-affiliated foundations Johan Lindgren fred fund, in memory to the well-known Swedish workers historian, and the Tage Erlander minne fund, in memory of the former Swedish Prime Minister.

It was not until 2010, after the electoral defeat Sahlins against the bourgeois electoral alliance to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, is Juholt dared literally from cover and called for the renewal of the human SAP. Support he found primarily at the party left and the chairman of the Young Socialists Jytte Good country. Sahlin gave in to the growing pressure and declared the fall of 2010 that they do not wish to stand for the party presidency again. On 10 March 2011 the Election Committee of Håkan Juholt SAP suggested to the new party chairman. He thus had the edge over the incumbent party secretary Ibrahim Baylan, who also announced his resignation, and his longtime predecessor Marita Ulvskog. On March 25 Juholt was elected at the Extraordinary Congress of the SAP as the new Chairman.

On October 7, 2011 reported the newspaper Aftonbladet that Håkan Juholt 90 000 Swedish crowns housing costs too much had been reimbursed by a misrepresentation to the Reichstag administration. Later, this amount increased to 160 000 kroons. On October 10, 2011, an investigation was initiated on suspicion of fraud. The investigation was later discontinued. However, the criticism even from within his own party did not let up since Juholt also expressed controversial to other questions. On January 21, 2012, he therefore announced his immediate resignation as party chairman.

Since 27 January 2012, the Workers' Party of Stefan Löfven is run as a new chairman.

Juholt lives with his girlfriend Åsa and his two sons from his first marriage in Oskarshamn and Mönsterås, where he owns a summer home.