page_title: Stefan Löfven
section_title: Domestic policy
hierarchical_section_title: Stefan Löfven / Prime Minister / Domestic policy
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Socialdemokraterna i den avslutande Prideparaden under Stockholm Pride 2014. Från vänster Carin Jämtin, Margot Wallström, Stefan Löfven.English: Social Democrats in the final Pride Parade during Stockholm Pride in 2014. Carin Jämtin, Margot Wallström, Stefan Löfven (party leader).
context_page_description: Kjell Stefan Löfven is a Swedish politician serving as Prime Minister of Sweden since 2014 and Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party since 2012.
  After leaving school and completing his mandatory military service in the Swedish Air Force, Löfven qualified as a welder and subsequently began a career as an active trade unionist. He rose to be elected as an ombudsman within the Swedish Metalworkers' Union and was eventually elected as the first Chairman of IF Metall in January 2006, a major new trade union formed from a number of smaller unions, including the SMU, voting to merge.
  After the resignation of Håkan Juholt, in January 2012, Löfven was unanimously selected by the executive board of the Social Democratic Party to replace him as the party's new leader. This also made Löfven the Leader of the Opposition, despite the fact that he did not have a seat in the Riksdag at the time.
  Löfven led the Social Democrats into the 2014 election. Despite initial opinion poll leads, the party only gained a single seat, but due to the poor performance of the governing Moderate Party, who lost 23 seats, Löfven was able to form a minority coalition government with the Green Party.
caption: Carin Jämtin, Margot Wallström and Löfven at the Stockholm Pride parade in August 2014
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