Johan Pehrson resigns as party leader for the Liberals

Johan Pehrson has been a party leader since April 2022. Now the party announces that he is leaving. In a press release, the Liberals write that the party board will decide to have an extra national meeting on June 24 to elect a new party leader.

« As part of the bourgeois government, we take liberals not only responsibility for Sweden in a difficult time, but implement important reforms for a safer, more knowledgeable and freer country, » says Johan Pehrson in the press release.

During the latest Time has several opinion polls shown that The Liberals are below The parliamentary block in public opinion. According to the latest survey from DN/Ipsos, the party had lost half of its voter support since the election in 2022. In the election, L received 4.6 percent – according to the last survey, the party had support of 2 percent, the lowest listing since October 2023.

« When I took over, the Liberals were calculated. Today, three years later, we have both developed a new assignment description for the Liberals and changed the direction in Sweden so that the school will go back to the basics, the internal security and external security is strengthened, and for a climate policy that works for both researchers and families. Pehrson according to a press release.

Johan Pehrson comes To remain as Minister of Education and Party leader until the extra national meeting. Before becoming a party leader, Johan Pehrson was, among other things, group leaders and legal political spokesperson for the party. He took over after Nyamko Sabuni resigned in April 2022, with six months left for the election.

Recently, it has been turbulent in the party. Minister of Gender Equality Paulina Brandberg and party secretary Jakob Olofsgård left their posts on the same day. The party Chancellor Oscar Wåglund Söderström also left his post shortly after.

In addition to them, MP Robert Hannah has left the party in February to switch to the Moderates. In February, Anna Starbrink left her parliamentary seat for a position as chief director at the Swedish Agency for Social Protection and Preparedness.

The party communications manager André Nilsson has also left his job in the near future.