Filippa Désirée Amanda Cay Reinfeldt (née Holmberg; 14 June 1967) is a Swedish

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of the

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. She served as Health Service Commissioner of

Stockholm County Stockholm County ( sv, Stockholms län, link=no ) is a county or '' län'' (in Swedish) on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden. It borders Uppsala County and Södermanland County. It also borders Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. The city of Stockholm ...

from 2006 to 2014, with responsible for

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and

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. She was previously mayor of

Täby Municipality Täby Municipality (''Täby kommun'') is a municipality north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Täby. Täby Municipality can be characterized as a suburb of Stockholm. The municipality i ...

from 2005 to 2006. In July 2019, she was appointed the

s spokesperson on

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-issues. She was married to former

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Fredrik Reinfeldt John Fredrik Reinfeldt (pronounced ; born 4 August 1965) is a Swedish economist, lecturer, and former politician who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014, and chairman of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015. He wa ...

from 1992 until their divorce in 2013. They have three children together.Fredrik and Filippa finalise their divorce.
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Career

Reinfeldt was Municipal Commissioner ( sv, kommunalråd) of

Täby Täby () was previously a trimunicipal locality, with 66,292 inhabitants in 2013. However, as from 2016, Statistics Sweden has amalgamated this locality with the Stockholm urban area. It is the seat of Täby Municipality in Stockholm County, Swed ...

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, from 2002 and

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and Chairperson (Mayor) of the Täby Municipal Executive from 2005 until 2006. Reinfeldt was appointed to several posts (''förtroendevald'') in the Stockholm City Council from 1991 to 1994 and councillor in the

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from 1994. Filippa Reinfeldt's position as a politician was used by the

Swedish Social Democratic Party The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party ( sv, Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti ; S/SAP), usually referred to as The Social Democrats ( sv, link=no, Socialdemokraterna ), is a social-d ...

to criticise

during the

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. Following the 2006 general election Filippa Reinfeldt was re-elected as a Mayor in Täby with the Moderate Party alone gaining over 50% of the votes in the Täby municipal election. She

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shortly afterwards in order to become County Commissioner of Health Services in the administration of

Chris Heister Chris Heister (born ''Gun Christina Heister''; 18 September 1950, in Östhammar) is a Swedish Moderate Party politician and former Leader of the Opposition on Stockholm County Council. She was elected to the Riksdag in 1991 and served until 2002 ...

. On 16 October 2014 she challenged incumbent Finance Commissioner

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following the 2014 general election but lost, with the votes 20 for her against 22 for Rosdahl. She subsequently announced that she will retire from politics. On 19 December 2014, Dagens Industri revealed that Reinfeldt would become a partner of private-owned

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Aleris with responsible for business development and public affairs by February 2015.

Personal life

Filippa Reinfeldt met her future husband

in 1989 when the two presided at the

Moderate Youth League The Moderate Youth League ( sv, Moderata ungdomsförbundet ; MUF), officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives, is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. Of the political youth organizations that received financial supp ...

. They married in 1992 in

Skeppsholmskyrkan The Skeppsholmen Church ( sv, Skeppsholmskyrkan) is a former church on the islet of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, Sweden. History Named after its location, the church was built 1823-1849 to replace a minor wooden church on Blasieholmen destr ...

and later moved to

. On 7 March 2012, the couple announced their separation. On 11 July, the couple signed their divorce application (customarily pending for six months). On 20 February 2013, they signed the last papers that finalised their divorce. They have three children.

References

External links

Moderaterna i Täby - Filippa ReinfeldtFilippa Reinfeldt
at the

website
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