Karl ''Tomas'' Eneroth (born 4 December 1966) is a

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of the

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who was Minister for Infrastructure from 2017 to 2022. He was previously Leader of the

in the

Swedish Riksdag The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ...

from 2014 to 2017. He has been

Member of the Riksdag Members of Parliament ( Swedish: ''riksdagsledamöter'', singular: ''riksdagsledamot'') in Sweden sit in the Riksdag. Description ''Members of Parliament'' refers to the elected members of the Riksdag. In Swedish, an MP is usually referred to ...

since 1994, representing

Kronoberg County Kronoberg County (; sv, Kronobergs län) is a county or ''län'' in southern Sweden. Kronoberg is one of three counties in the province of Småland. It borders the counties of Skåne, Halland, Jönköping, Kalmar, and Blekinge. Its capit ...

. He is the President by age in the Riksdag since 18 October 2022. From 2010 to 2014, he served as deputy leader of the Committee on Social Insurance. He has previously been leader of the same committee, as well as leader of the

Committee on Industry and Trade The Committee on Industry and Trade, also known as the Balfour Report because it was chaired by the industrialist Arthur Balfour, was a committee set up to discover the reasons for the United Kingdom's economic decline since the Great War ...

. In 2011, he was mentioned as a possible candidate to replace Håkan Juholt as leader of the party.Mats Knutson (16 February 2011)
SVT:s Mats Knutson erfar: Eneroth favorit i S-valet
Sveriges Television, retrieved 18 July 2013

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