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Anna Maria Kinberg Batra ([²anːa ²ɕɪnbærj ˈbɑːtra]; née Kinberg, born 14 April 1970) is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She is Leader of Moderate Party and Leader of the Opposition from January 2015, but announced her resignation in August 2017. She has been a Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm Municipality since 2006.
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- Early life
- Relatives
- Education
- Political career
- Elected representative
- Leader of the Moderate Party
- Personal life
- References
On 25 August 2017 she announced her resignation as party leader, pending an extra congress to be held in October. In September 2017, she also said that she would leave the political arena by the next election in 2018.
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Early life
Anna Kinberg was born in Skärholmen. In 1974 Kinberg and her family moved to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as her father worked for Merrill Lynch's Amsterdam office. Kinberg Batra speaks fluent Dutch after her years in the country. They moved back to Sweden in 1980, settling in Djursholm where Kinberg Batra spent the rest of her upbringing.
Relatives
Kinberg Batra is a member of the Kinberg family from Västra Götaland County. Her parents are commodity analyst Johan S. Kinberg and chemistry engineer Sarah Kinberg (née Lundgren). Her grandfather was director Hilding Kinberg and her great-great-grandfather was professor Hjalmar Kinberg.
Education
Kinberg Batra went to high school at Danderyds gymnasium, where she studied natural sciences. After high school, she studied foreign languages and political science at Stockholm University between 1989 and 1991. She graduated from Stockholm School of Economics in 2000, having studied part-time there from 1991.
Political career
Kinberg Batra joined the Moderate Youth League in 1983. During the internal fights within the youth league in the beginning of the 1990s , she belonged to the liberal phalanx and supported Ulf Kristersson as chairman.
In 1993, she worked as political advisor to Prime Minister Carl Bildt at the Government offices. She has also worked as editor at Svenska Dagbladet in 1994 and 1996. From 1995 to 1996 she was political secretary at the office of the Moderate Party in the European Parliament, and from 1998 to 2000 she served as project leader. From 2000 to 2005, she was communication consult at Prime PR. Concurrently, she ran her own consulting business. From 2005 to 2006, she was head of information at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.
She was active in student politics as chairman of the Stockholm University Student Union in 1994, as member of the board of the Moderate Youth League from 1995 to 1998 and as the first female chairman of the Moderate Youth League in Stockholm County from 1996 to 1998.From 2004 to 2011, she was a member of the board of activity center Fryshuset. Since 2011, she has been a member of the executive board of the Moderate Party.
Elected representative
She has also been an elected member of the Stockholm County Council and the municipal council in Nacka Municipality. Prior to the 2006 general election she worked at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, and prior to that she worked in different companies as a public relations consultant. She has authored the book Indien – från stackare till stormakt ("India – From Wretch to Great Power", Timbro, 2005).
Kinberg became known to the general public when she stated that "people from Stockholm are more intelligent than people from rural areas" in her election campaign 1998. In 2014, she apologized for this statement and said that "it is still the stupidest thing I've said publicly".
In the Riksdag from 2006, she was chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs from 2007 to 2010 and chairman of the Committee on Finance from 2010 to 2014.
Leader of the Moderate Party
Following defeat of the Moderate Party in the general election in September 2014, Kinberg Batra was de jure took leadership of the party. On 9 December 2014, the Moderate Party's nomination committee nominated Anna Kinberg Batra to succeed Fredrik Reinfeldt as party leader. She was elected to the position at the party congress on 10 January 2015, becoming the party's first female leader.
She faced criticism from voters and from within the Moderate Party after the December agreement, which made it possible for Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's centre-left minority government coalition to continue in office. On 9 October 2015, following the Christian Democrats departure from the agreement, Kinberg Batra announced that the agreement was now dissolved.
On 25 August 2017, she announced that she will resign from leadership of the Moderate Party, due to heavy criticism from within the party. The next leader of the Moderate Party will be elected in the Moderate Party leadership election, 2017.
Personal life
She is married to comedian David Batra since 2002. They have one daughter and live in Nacka, Stockholm.