The Riksdag’s smallest party, the Liberals, will appoint a new party leader at an extraordinary national meeting on June 24. This comes after Johan Pehrson announced his resignation.
Pehrson himself says he wants to step back but will continue to be involved in politics in some form in the future.
– I’m not very old, but I am newly married, and I have led the party through two election campaigns, he announced during today’s press conference.
Pehrson was first elected to the Riksdag for the Liberal People’s Party at the age of 30 in 1998. Between 2022 and 2024, he served as Sweden’s Minister for Employment and Integration and is currently the Minister for Education in the Kristersson government.
The Liberals are the smallest party in the Riksdag, with 4.6 percent of the vote in the 2022 election, and are currently polling below the 4 percent threshold according to opinion polls.