Conceding defeat in the September 2006 general election, he announced that he would resign as party leader, and Mona Sahlin was elected to succeed him as party leader in March 2007.

In 1996 Persson was chosen over Mona Sahlin, the Deputy Prime Minister, to lead the country after Carlsson retired.

His successor was long considered to be the then Minister for Equality and Deputy Prime Minister Mona Sahlin.

Mona Ingeborg Sahlin ( née Andersson ; born 9 March 1957 ) is a Swedish politician who was Leader of the Opposition and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011.

Sahlin was a Member of Parliament, representing Stockholm County, from 1982 to 1996 and again from 2002 to 2011.

Sahlin was elected new leader of the Social Democratic Party on 17 March 2007, succeeding Göran Persson who resigned as leader following the defeat in the 2006 general election.

Sahlin was educated at Nacka Samskola and Södra Latin in Stockholm and completed secondary school in 1977.

This was during the Vietnam War, and already as a 13-year-old Sahlin had joined the Swedish FNL group.

In the Swedish general election of 1982 Sahlin was elected to the Riksdag as the youngest member of parliament at that time.

Mona Sahlin was mentioned as a possible successor, but not considered to be the most likely candidate.

Much of this criticism was silenced in January 2007 when the chairman of the Trade Union Confederation, Wanja Lundby-Wedin, expressed full support for Sahlin as well as several powerful party districts around the country.

In October 1995 the newspaper Expressen revealed that Sahlin, who was then serving as Deputy Prime Minister and was widely seen as the main candidate to succeed Ingvar Carlsson as Prime Minister, had charged more than 50, 000 Swedish kronor for private expenses on her working charge card, which was only for working expenses.

Jim Henson designed Rowlf, and Don Sahlin built him ; it was Sahlin's first muppet construction.

Jonsson was replaced by Dan Sahlin, who was signed from relegated Hammarby.

The 1998 season started extremely poorly and after 6 matches the team was bottom of the table, however the team picked up and for a while held second spot, only to end up 6th after having lost their two biggest profiles during the summer break, Arnor Gudjohnsen and top goal scorer Dan Sahlin.

In 1982 she married her current husband Bo Sahlin, with whom she has had three children: Jenny ( born 1983 ), Gustav ( born 1989 ), and Johan who died after ten months as a result of heart failure.

* March 9 – Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician

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When describing the political leaders of the two political blocks, a majority of all articles, 53 % were negative in describing the Red-Green candidate Mona Sahlin, whereas only 30 % of the articles about the Alliance candidate Fredrik Reinfeldt.

Wallström, Jämtin and Messing declared however that they would not stand for the post and instead supported Sahlin, leaving Mona Sahlin as the only serious candidate.

This provided Mona Sahlin, as leader of the biggest opposition party, with excellent opportunities to lead the opposition against PM Fredrik Reinfeldt.

Mona Sahlin ( second from the right ) and the top Social Democratic Party candidates for the European Parliament elections in 2009.

Mona Sahlin is often described as a scion of the party's more moderate members, and a number of left-wing party members criticised her candidacy for party leader.

Mona Sahlin has one brother and two sisters.

* Profile: Mona Sahlin in The Local

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* Åke E. Andersson, Nils-Eric Sahlin, " The complexity of creativity ", Synthese library: studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of science v. 258, Springer, 1997, ISBN 0-7923-4346-8, p. 59

* Åke E. Andersson, Nils-Eric Sahlin, " The complexity of creativity ", Synthese library: studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of science v. 258, Springer, 1997, ISBN 0-7923-4346-8, p. 59

Anna Cecilia Sahlin, commonly known as Sahlene, Anna Sahlin or Anna Sahlene, is a singer from Sweden.

In Melodifestivalen 1969 ( the selection for the song to represent Sweden at the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest ) Sahlin performed as one of the back up singers to Jan Malmsjö.

Nuder himself replied: " If she Sahlin believes there is another person better suited to speak for the economic policy of Social Democracy in Sweden, then I won't doubt to step aside for that person ".

At the time, two-term Prime Minister of Sweden and then leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party Ingvar Carlsson, then party secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party Mona Sahlin and former Swedish State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Pierre Schori were originally intended to participate.

* Partly reprinted in: Gärdenfors, Peter and Sahlin, Nils-Eric.

In 1969, Jim Henson and Don Sahlin produced a test pilot for the Wizard of Id.

All the reindeer were built by Don Sahlin.

The chair is Claire L. Sahlin.

Sahlin is the first female leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the only one never elected Prime Minister together with Claes Tholin and Håkan Juholt.