Prime Minister of Sweden

John Fredrik Reinfeldt (born August 4, 1965) is a Swedish politician and the current leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party.

Fredrik Reinfeldt was born in the village of Osterhaninge, in Haninge, Sodermanland; and was brought up in Tensta, Stockholm. He joined the Moderate Youth League (Moderata Ungdomsforbundet or MUF) in 1983, and was active in student politics at Stockholm University, where he graduated in Economics (civilekonomexamen) in 1990.

He was elected a member of the Riksdag (riksdagsledamot) in the general election of 1991, in which the Moderate Party and its allies had considerable success, leading to the formation of the first centre-right government in Sweden since 1982, under Moderate Prime Minister Carl Bildt.

From 1992 to 1995, Reinfeldt was the chairman of the Moderate Youth League. He ousted the former chairman, Ulf Kristersson at the controversial congress known as The Battle of Lycksele.

Under Reinfeldt's leadership, the Moderate Party has adjusted its position on the political spectrum, moving towards the centre, starting to focus their calls for tax cuts on low- and middle-income groups, rather than on major tax cuts more to the benefit of high-income earners. Also, Reinfeldt tends to be less forceful in his criticism of the Swedish welfare state than his predecessors. Reinfeldt has been described as a communitarian. People both within and outside the party differ on their analysis of this, with some arguing that the party is mainly honing the way it describes its visions, and others suggesting that it constitutes a substantial policy change towards the centre.

He lives in Taby, Uppland, with his wife Filippa, who is a local Moderate Party councillor (kommunalrad), and their three children.