Lars Engqvist (born 13 August 1945) is a Swedish politician. He served as chairman of the youth organization of the

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from 1972 to 1978, and then worked as a journalist. He was the

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of '' Arbetet'', a

Malmö Malmö is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, sixth-largest city in Nordic countries, the Nordic region. Located on ...

-based newspaper. In the early 1990s, he was the mayor of Malmö, and then president of the

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before receiving his first government appointment in 1998. On 1 June 2004, he was appointed deputy

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of the

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. The appointment was mainly to make him the acting prime minister under

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, when the latter received knee surgery in early June. The appointment would not affect his status as the Minister of Health and Social Affairs. However, at the same time it was also announced that Engqvist would step down from his government posts on 1 October, to become the new

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. In April 2005, he was appointed chairman of the Swedish public service television company

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, succeeding Allan Larsson. The appointment drew criticism because of his close ties to the Social Democratic Party and the government.

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