Cristina Maria Husmark Pehrsson (born 15 April 1947) is

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and a member of the

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. She served as Minister for Social Security and as Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2006 to 2010. She is a certified

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and was a member of the

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for Skåne County West from 1998 to 2014.

Government minister

Husmark Pehrsson was appointed Minister for Social Security following the 2006 general election. She was also appointed Minister for Nordic Cooperation. She was the oldest person in the

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from 2006 to 2010. Husmark Pehrsson was indirectly blamed for what had not worked during the introduction of the new

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rules in 2008; after the 2010 general election she resigned from the cabinet position on 5 October 2010. By a memorandum, made at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in December 2009 and published in 2011, showed that the government's official line that the law had "

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" was a later construction. Cristina Husmark Pehrsson and her ministry had not received any hearings for their warnings that some changes would have anomalous consequences. The memo revealed that among the most controversial of the proposal, the far parentheses (sometimes called "scaffold"), was not included in the original proposal but instead was a proposal by the

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in order to save money. Her ministry's proposal had not meant that people should become "zero rated".

Personal life

Husmark Pehrsson is married to Folke Pehrsson with whom she has three children. She lives in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Husmark Pehrsson, Cristina 1947 births Living people People from Uddevalla Municipality Members of the Riksdag from the Moderate Party Swedish feminists Swedish Ministers for Social Security Women members of the Riksdag Women government ministers of Sweden Members of the Riksdag 2002–2006 21st-century Swedish women politicians 20th-century Swedish women Swedish Ministers for Nordic Cooperation