Sara Skyttedal

Sara Skyttedal

Skyttedal in 2014
Personal details
Born Sara Magdalena Skyttedal
(1986-08-06) 6 August 1986
Tyresö, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Political party Christian Democrats

Sara Magdalena Skyttedal (born 6 August 1986) is a Swedish politician for the Christian Democrats party. Since 2013, she has chaired the Young Christian Democrats but intends to resign after her recent appointment as municipal commissioner for Linköping.

Career

In September 2002 Skyttedal became a member of the Young Christian Democrats.[1] Since then, she has been chairperson of the Haninge constituance for the party, and ombudsman for district group in Stockholm's municipality.[2] She has been district director for the Christian Democrats for Stockholm and vice chairperson for the party in Haninge.[3]

Skyttedal studied political science, political economy and history science at Stockholm University.[4] She has also studied rhetoric, Swedish and law.[5] Skyttedal participated in the beauty pageant Miss Sweden in 2006,[6] where she made the Top 15 in the final. It was her fiancé that sent in an application for her to compete.[2]

Skyttedal has a background in municipality politics for Haninge, until 2010 she was first vice chairperson in the adult education and high school board and as well as juryman in Södertörn's court.[7]

At the 2010 general elections in Sweden, she was a replacement at the Haninge City council, a job she was released from in early 2011 when she moved from the municipality.[1] At the 2009 and 2014 elections for the European parliament, Skyttedal was a candidate for her party.[8][9] At the 2010 general elections she became candidate for the municipality elections in Stockholm.[10] She has also resided in Växjö and was part of the 2014 general election for the Kronoberg constituency.[1]

Skyttedal has been the chairperson of Young Christian Democrats since 11 May 2013 and a member of the Christian Democrats party executive board. She was previously first vice chairperson for the Young Christian Democrats.[11] From May 2011 to May 2015, she was the vice chairperson for the Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP).[12]

In October 2015, Skyttedal became the pivotal factor in the Christian Democrats' decision to pull out of the controversial December Agreement.[13][14]

In July 2016, Skyttedal announced that she would resign as chairperson for the Young Christian Democrats at the next meeting, to be held in late 2016.[3][15] On 8 September 2016, she announced that she had gained the office of municipal commissioner in Linköping.[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sara Skyttedal utsatt för sabotage i Växjö". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Sara Skyttedal: KD måste komma ut som äkta höger". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 27 May 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  3. 1 2 "KDU-ordföranden Sara Skyttedal avgår". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "Sara Skyttedal vill ge Sverige en rak höger". Dagen (in Swedish). Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Sara Skyttedal vill ge sverige en rak höger". Dagen (in Swedish). Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Ingen, Ingen (20 March 2006). "Växjö tjej vidare i Nya fröken Sverige". Smålandsposten (in Swedish). Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  7. ↑ "Kommunorganisation" (PDF) (in Swedish). Haninge Municipality. 19 May 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 November 2010.
  8. ↑ "Personröster" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  9. ↑ Skyttedal, Sara. "Debattartikel: Låt effektivitet bli en ny ledstjärna för EU" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  10. ↑ "Stockholms län - Personröster" (in Swedish). Election Authority. 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  11. ↑ "Partistyrelsen" (in Swedish). Christian Democrats. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012.
  12. ↑ "Sara Skyttedal vald till vice ordförande i Yepp" (Press release) (in Swedish). Kristdemokratiska Ungdomsförbundet. Archived from the original on 16 October 2011.
  13. ↑ "Fears deal collapse could spark Swedish vote". The Local. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  14. ↑ "Christian Democrats reject December Agreement". Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  15. ↑ Lundgren, Rasmus. "Sara Skyttedal slutar som KDU-ordförande". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  16. ↑ "Skyttedal om nya uppdraget: Uppenbart inte någon expert". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 8 September 2016.

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